Written by Ford | Oct 22, 2014 | Nearshore Agile, Outsource
Building a great remote team has enormous benefits. By expanding one’s talent pool beyond your local area you can dramatically increase your chances for finding people who possess the unique set of skills and talents for your team. As a product development team based...
Written by Arin Sime | Sep 17, 2014 | Nearshore Agile
At AgilityFeat, we are a very distributed and very agile team. Culture is important for any team, but it’s even more important for distributed teams because you need a strong culture to overcome the possible inefficiencies of doing work remotely. There are many...
Written by Ford | Jan 30, 2014 | Events, Nearshore Agile, Outsource
At AgilityFeat, we work in a distributed manner. Primarily due to the insight that interruptions kill productivity and partially due to the painful traffic situation that exists in San José Costa Rica (where most of our team lives), our team members all work from...
Written by Ford | Nov 21, 2013 | Agile, Nearshore Agile, Outsource
Last week I was working with an entrepreneur friend, who is building his product with a distributed team. His group includes people on both coasts of the United States as well as a two person team in western Europe. Throughout the course of our discussion it became...
Written by Ford | Oct 3, 2013 | Agile, Lean Startup, Nearshore Agile, Outsource
Last weekend I attended Lean Startup Machine in Boston. It was a learning-packed 72 hours and I think all entrepreneurs should attend one. In addition to the hands-on exercises applying Lean Startup Methodologies, it was a great way to meet other entrepreneurs and be...
Written by Arin Sime | Sep 17, 2013 | Nearshore Agile
“I want to make Ruby hiring your problem.” One of our current clients said this to me in our very first phone call. He was looking for software development teams in Latin America that could handle Ruby on Rails development, and naturally AgilityFeat came...
