My column at TechTarget this month is called "Offshore outsourcing projects: Seven things every PM should know"

1. Stereotype!

All Americans carry a gun. All Dutch people are cheapskates. All French waiters…well, don't get me started! We humans love to stereotype. We simply need to. If there is one part in our brain that is "unknown," if there is a spot in our universe we have no clue about, we go mental. We have to fill in some "stub" information if the real information is not available to us. Even when we know that the information we use is not correct. We are more comfortable with false information than with no information.

Photography by Gadongen76.
The other six are:

2. You are wrong!
3. It's different!
4. Communicate!
5. Embrace overhead
6. Baby steps!
7. Be swell!

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