Managing Global Dev Teams: Cultural Nuances & Leadership Challenges
Lessons from leading 12 engineering teams across 7 countries: managing distributed, multicultural development teams.
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Oshri Cohen has, at one point, directed twelve engineering teams across seven countries and four time zones — so the challenges of managing global, multicultural development teams are familiar territory.
In this conversation he digs into the cultural nuances, communication norms, and leadership habits that make distributed engineering actually work: building trust across borders, keeping delivery aligned across time zones, and turning a scattered group of teams into one organization that ships.
Useful for any leader scaling engineering beyond a single office or country.
What's covered
- Building trust across borders and cultures
- Keeping delivery aligned across time zones
- Communication norms that make distributed teams work
- Turning many teams into one organization
