Friday, April 25, 2008

ONCE...working with foreigners

This is not the first time that I involved in a project that includes foreigners. I've been working with Indian, French, Italian, Dutch, American, South African, Thais, Indonesians, and Koreans. But those involvement not as intense as the one I'm handling now.

I must say that this is the first international-like project that I'm handling in the big scale (>RM20m) for 14 months. Todate, I've been dealing with 8 Koreans altogether. The difference can be seen whether they've experience working internationally or just in Korea. No doubt their work attitude is much better than some (or most ?) of us, but they would also need to adapt to our environment soonest possible.

Recently, I have some trying moment with the Project Leader. He must understand that even though they have reached developed state status, they have develop and use the system for the past 10 years, we are not that bad in terms of software development methodology and experiences. Probably bad for him that this particular PM is from technical background..and has not lost his sense of software development just yet.

I hope they're professional enough (i.e. not so emotional..even though he did demonstrate that he's bit emotional..), and continue working for the best of the project. Am full gear for the good of the project, for the best interest of my company...and for betterment of future generations thru this project.

2 comments:

Kembara Musafir said...

alaaaa... ko kasi hantam jer kat mamat tuh... kah kah kah...! aper dia ingat dia terer aper...? Mesia pple lagi terer... no lah... kasi can kat dia, slow slow man man lai... jgn slow sgt la pulak... siksa tekanan jiwa sama ada dia ataupun ko.... inilah adat keghojer dgn orang2 bukan senegara... geng2 senegara pun dah challenging, inikan pulak bangsa asing.... gd luck!!

Haizam said...

udah...ada la 2-3 kali..ada gak aku denga angin bertiup agak kencang yg dia nak balik kg..tak tahan hehehe...tapi bab rakan2 senegara tuh aku setuju. kirenye, kat mana2 pung sama...