I remember being a new manager and strongly believing that my job was to prevent my employees from making mistakes. After all I was the more experienced one and if I allowed them to fail what value did I bring to the company. Luckily this was a long time ago […] Read more »
5 Tips to Help You Manage Remote Offshore Teams
It today’s world working with remote teams has become a norm. A remote team could be a team of your own employees that are located in a location other than your main office. It can be some employees that work from home or from other offices. Or it could be […] Read more »
Role of a manager in an agile or scrum environment
You are a team manager and your organization just decided to switch to scrum or any other agile methodology. You hear words agile and thinking to yourself – what am I going to do? What is my role as a manager in this new agile world. I no longer need […] Read more »
Why I Outsource – Cost is not the primary reason
After one of my recent posts a friend sent me a note which sounded pretty angry. It read “Why do you outsource jobs instead of hiring US employees”. I thought it was a fair question which deserved an answer. The simple answer is that I outsource because I have no […] Read more »