Culture: The Key To Outsourcing Success
summary
Eighty-six percent of game studios outsource work in a $160 billion market, yet projects still lose hundreds of thousands or millions because of organizational cultural mismatch. Culture splits into internal drivers like leadership and hiring and external ones like religion or economy — for example workers in some Muslim regions take five times five breaks for prayer — and these affect communication, expectations and deadlines. Remedies include NDAs, written milestones and scope, weekly reports, a single time‑zone contact, overcommunication and documented work breakdowns.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Start
- 0:31OUTSOURCING IS GREAT
- 1:52CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
- 3:00WHY CULTURES VARY
- 4:18INTERNAL FACTORS
- 5:09EXTERNAL FACTORS
- 7:44WORKING WITH A PAKISTANI TEAM
- 12:12PLAN & RESEARCH!
- 13:28GOOD FAITH & TRUST
- 15:48LISTEN FIRST
- 16:49HAVE DIFFICULT CONVERSATIONS
- 19:12SHOW, DON'T TELL
- 19:52OVER COMMUNICATE
- 20:32BE STRAIGHTFORWARD
- 21:14CONFLICT DE-ESCALATION
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