Project Design for Diversity and Distribution
Why go global?
my thought
cost
access to larger talent pool
asynchronicity
some of the benefits are often false promises
Coordination
Coordination is the management of dependencies
Coordination has a distance
communciation efficiency
distribution and time zones
exception handling behavior
different priorities
misreading indicators
Coordination can be designed
Tacit abilities are an asset
If you can predict it, you can design it
Knowledge is testable prediction
Culture
Geert Hofstede dimensions of value in culture
Individualism
Masculinity
Uncertainty avoidance
Power distance
Long-term orientation