Getting Real, by 37signals, gave our team common language for a bunch of ideas that we’ve always had in our head, but just never knew how to verbalize. And for that we’re truly grateful.

In fact our team was so inspired by the publishing of the book that when Matt announced they were looking for translation help, DBoost saw an opportunity to bring the Realness to our mother country, India.

A little background…

India, a country that absolutely adores education, has some of the brightest and most capable engineers in the world. And with the rise of outsourcing, India has made a real name for itself in the world of web technology.

However one of the challenges the tech industry faces is that the shops are run more like factories than places of strategy. Even though most of the country is Hindu by religion, when it comes to technology Microsoft is god and functional specs are the average engineer’s bible. Forget Ruby on Rails, most people haven’t even heard of PHP.

But we’re not discouraged. We here at DBoost remain optimistic because we know this anti-agile strategy is simply a de facto plan. Once mother India has a chance to Get Real they’ll never turn back. And although most engineers already speak and read English, we feel a Hindi version of Getting Real has the power to give our Indian brothers an even better understanding about the benefits of going agile (Hindi is still the prominent language). In addition, by taking the effort to translate the book we are also sending a clear signal about our intentions to be a driving force in promoting agile-ness in India.

DBoost just started on the translation so we only have a few pages done, but we expect to be complete in the next 5 weeks. As we complete major chunks of the book, we’ll send pages over to Matt and in turn he’ll update the Getting Real subsite.

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