How the PM Practices are impacted by the country culture?..

thanks Anton. It is an interesting point that generates a new discussion about self-management teams in those kind of cultures where the direct lines are so important and strict.do you think they have a different distinction about self-direction?

thanks for your points here. Do you think in some culture is more difficult to talk about self.empower teamdue the conditions you are describing?

Thanks Sergio. I understand in your points that is a key effort in the BA at the project starting, but do you understand this responsability in the BA and not in the PM? why the BA?
I analyze the cultural impact in the whole project management view and not only for the requirements pespective. could you elaborate the point abot the cultural impact in requirements analysis or give me some link or access to your article? thanks a lot

BA is not about requirements. BA is about whole solution. And by the way, PM is about project requirements. Before a project is started the BA need to help the organization to define the solution and after the project ends BA continue working to see if the expected benefits are achieved. First activity for BA is called "needs assessment" or "strategy analysis" (depending you take the IIBA or the PMI) to understand the current architecture. Culture is a variable that belongs to Business Architecture. BA and PM are roles (obvious) and the interaction between them can take place at any level. The article is here:
https://www.projectmanagement.com/blog-pos...-right-solution
It was published in spanish too.
En lo que te pueda ayudar, a menos con mi opinion, no dudes en escribirme.

Desde hace mas de 25 años trabajo en proyectos con equipos virtuales distribuidos alrededor del mundo donde participan personas de muchos paises. Te decía que el BA es quien debe arrancar esto desde el punto de vista de comenzar a generar el Análisis de Stakeholders antes que el proyecto exista como parte del análisis y definicion de la solucion. Este es un documento "vivo" que sin duda el PM tambien puede complementar. Pero es el BA, o BRM como se usa en algunas empresas, el que tiene una vision mas global de todo el impacto. Por otro lado, en las organizationes como la que hoy estoy trabajando, las áreas de Change Management (organizacional) tienen repositorios de datos donde hablan de las caracteristicas culturales, demograficas y demas de cada pais involucrado. Vos comentas que trabajas con gente de la India, igual que nosotros. No solo es complicado entenderles el ingles que hablan sino que ademas su dinamica en la toma de decisiones o responsabilidad ante las decisiones tambien lo es. Igual cuando trabajas con gente de USA. Ellos son "just do it". O cuando trabajas con Europeos como Franceses, para ellos las decisiones "caen por su propio peso". O cuando trabajas con Latinos, los Argentinos somos pasionales y cuando hablamos parece que estamos enojados y nos toman por agresivos, Por ejemplo Uds. los Colombianos (a quienes aprecio mucho y trabajo todos los dias) tratan de "Ud" a todos y eso a nosotros los argentinos nos parece que esta poniendo distancia. Bueno, y asi siguiendo.

Thanks Sergio. I look forward to met you in any congress. you have a great stories and good points about BA. In my country BA is n ot acommon role at least with the scope you are describing. By the way we in Antioquia, (my region) said "Paisano" and "Parcero" to create a more close relationship, the "Usted" is more common in Bogota and south regions.

thanks for all great examples you are providing in this post. I was in a project with an indian team and when I went bangalore to have a off-shore kick-off was very visible the cultural impact about questioning and making comments with big bosses around. Other issue I found when we were in a Testing face with a daily meeting is that the Indian members felt very embracing when taking about the quality issues. In fact one of them told me that he felt ridiculized when taking about the defects on public.
Thanks again. great insights.

Thanks a lot for all your great samples. very interesting points to feed our awarness about cultural issues in PM.

thanks Ketith. Verygood points about the days off and holidays in our countries. For people that comes to colombia they need to consider that we are one of the countries with more days off in the year. However, I was very surprised with some project in Panama that they had a complete week because the city festivals and the project was going on and with big issues.