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Ask HN: Going to lead a struggling dev team in a different culture, now what?

I'm flying in a few days to a developing country to lead a team of software developers. They are struggling with a project and the deadline is close. I accepted this contract because I like the country, the CEO and want to push myself to a first experience software lead.One reason to bring me in is to implement good software development practices to the team. They are seriously lacking on this...

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