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East vs. West: Culture and Distributed Development

Posted by michael on from the sayonara dept.

CowboyRobot writes "ACM's Queue has an article entitled, Culture Surprises in Remote Software Development Teams that reviews differences in cultures and explores the impact they have on distributed software development teams. From the article: "In Western societies, decisions are made on the basis of input from those involved. In cultures with greater hierarchies, group members assume an authority will decide and they are only to enact the decision." Some stereotypes and some common sense, but I recognized myself in the descriptions of the 'typical American'."

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  1. Ho-Hum by raz2 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Would they have ties to Indian programmers? 8)

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  2. No no decision no action by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Inaction without authorative decision.
    hhmmm.... small wonder some things never get done and productivity bottlenecks could occur.

  3. Ask Slashdot: Mouse or a man? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    "You're not a man, you're a mouse!", my wife screamed at me this morning when I failed to satisfy her orally.

    Any advice?

    1. Re:Ask Slashdot: Mouse or a man? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      How the hell can one fail to satisfy a woman orally??! I mean come on.

  4. Intel Not Inside! by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    RAD6000 microprocessors are radiation-hardened versions of the PowerPC chips that powered Macintosh computers in the early 1990s

    Go Mac!

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  5. Re:Where Does Europe Fit In This? by Aardpig · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The entire continent of Africa would starve to death without UN food aid, paid for mostly by the United States.

    What, the same United States which has spend $87 billion on its invasion of Iraq, but only $10 billion in the last year on foreign aid for the whole planet?

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