4 | 2001

Introduction
Alexandre Rodrigues, Guest Editor

Managing Multicultural Projects with Complementary Practices
Johanna Rothman

Space, Man
Kent Beck

Rising to the Challenge of Multicultural Projects
Eduardo Casais

Taking Your Show on the Road
Pedro Chagas, Carlos Parreira, and Tito Camacho

Managing Offshore Projects
K.R. Kashyap

Corporate Management of IT Projects in Russia
Vladimir Liberzon and Alexey Bazhenov


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Correction
In the February issue of the Cutter IT Journal, the forthcoming Annals of Software Engineering article entitled "Managing Software Development for Survivable Systems" was misattributed. Dr. Nancy Mead wishes to acknowledge her coauthors, Rick Linger, John McHugh, and Howard Lipson.

Delivering a project on time and on budget is difficult enough when team members share a common language, culture, and time zone. What special challenges do we face when they don't? From outsource to open source, IT projects are increasingly becoming international, multicultural affairs. In the April 2001 issue of the Cutter IT Journal, we discuss project management from an international perspective and discover what really is different about multicultural projects.