Just recently I got a call out of the blue from a colleague who leads his own internal internationalization team at a well-known software company with many leading commercial products. The discussion particularly related to best practices and turning information into actual plans. I suppose the art of planning is kind of a "secret sauce" for any type of engineering. And internationalization has its own special ingredients that need to be blended with their own puree of painful lessons. Seriously, internationalization is dangerous stuff to estimate. Here are a few reasons: Requirements are notoriously easy ... To read this entire article you must be a MultiLingual subscriber. For immediate access to the current issue, subscribe to the digital version. Already a subscriber?

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