I haven't seen so many Excel files before as in the US, and I think it is because America is 15 years behind. It is true to fashion, furnitures, methodologies but not for technology. And manufacturers here are really lucky that the rest of the world can keep up with them and will buy their products, because with the attitude I'm seeing they barely could sell anything in this country.
Facts that support this idea:
1) Agile SW development methodologies are available for many years. But here a 'Scrum Master''s most important problem is that he cannot see dependencies between tasks across the whole project till the smallest details.
2) Best solution to track project progress involving team overseas is to send an Excel sheet back and forth in emails. (That's where the title comes from today) There're many online collaboration tools available, but it was a big effort to loose this Excel-Email idea. I think it is because the biggest benefit of the solution is that no one knows where is the latest version ;)
I fought my fights I can say I did fulfil some of my goals but I had to compromise. We didn't go with any state-of-the-art solution but an online version of Microsoft Project. Well better than nothing.
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