Jim Lee, President Cimetrics (young, rapidly growing software start-up) is a re-evaluation of his small company model geographically distributed product development. To take advantage of talented cheap labor in Russia, the company relies on two teams of software development in Russia for the development of its products. Overcoming cultural differences between Russian teams from Toronto manager and Boston company's management is not easy, however. After the Russian engineer (introduced in Boston by Cimetrics) asks to move back to Russia, Lee decided to review the situation. "Hide
by Lynn Sharp Paine, Jose Royo Source: Harvard Business School 26 pages. Publication Date: February 2, 1999. Prod. #: 399108-PDF-ENG
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