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| Topic: | Communicating With The Overseas Team: Best Practices and Colossal Failures |
| Presenter: | Panel Discussion |
| Date: | November 18, 2014 |
| Time: | 5:30pm - 7:30pm |
| Location: | ThoughtWorks |
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Communicating With The Overseas Team: Best Practices and Colossal Failures
You’re smart. They’re smart. You don’t understand them. They don’t understand you. The improvement and upgrade effort has been a mess. Sound familiar?
Off-shoring isn’t just for cheap manufacturing anymore. As the world gets flatter and flatter, more high-skilled jobs are moving to where the skilled workers are less expensive and the markets are growing. Development and improvement teams can be spread over several locations, especially India and China, and the implementation of system improvements efforts will often be across several countries.
You’ve probably seen several communication mishaps you’d rather not repeat. Our panel will share some best practices – and most likely some war stories – of how to improve communication and effectiveness when your development team is dispersed throughout several countries.
Biographies:
Joe Cleaver is the Platform Business Evangelist for Microsoft's Developer Experience group, focusing on Windows 8, Windows Phone, Apps for Office and Azure for top tier Commercial customers and partners. Prior to joining Microsoft, Joe spent 10 years working in Financial Services, where he managed strategic projects using a combination of offshore, near shore and onshore teams. He also co-founded iTEAMS, a global testing service that utilized onshore and offshore teams to provide independent testing and expertise to key customers around the world.
If Joe appears a bit sleepy today, it's because he has six kids and hasn't slept since 2001.
Andrew Parlock is the Senior Market Manager for Commercial Cyber with Battelle Memorial’s Global Security Business, currently focused on the threats to the Global Financial Markets. He received his Bachelors of Science in Aerospace Engineering from West Virginia University and MBA from Michigan State University. Prior to joining Battelle, he spent 6 years with Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman working in National Security (no he wasn’t a spy). He has more than 20 years’ experience in International Business Development and Consulting, having had the opportunity to travel and execute business throughout the US, Europe and Australia.
When not working on his 143 year old home in Baltimore, MD, he focuses on his current mid-life crisis, triathlons.
Mike Sadowski has been involved in developing web-based business applications, using a mix of onshore and offshore teams for most of his career. Previously he was the CIO at Odyssey Logistics & Technology, a venture-backed logistics company, where he led a 70-person IT team engaged in proprietary applications development, IT infrastructure management, and support. Prior to this, Mike was VP of Product Management at RELY Software, a logistics software vendor, and a Principal at PRTM Management Consultants (acquired by PwC), where he consulted to technology-based companies such as IBM, 3Com and Seagate. Mike has a BASc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto, a Master of Engineering in Operations Research from Cornell University, and an MBA from Cornell.
Gordon Adelsberg (Moderator) started his career doing biochemical research and product development in the food industry, then spent several years developing and testing data mining software (Now they call it “big data.”) at SAS Institute in Cary, North Carolina. He then completed an MBA at Penn State and began a decade long career in business management consulting. He recently stepped away from consulting to become CEO of Communication for Geeks®.
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