I've blogged before about what a great place Costa Rica is to do business if you are considering nearshoring to Latin America, and so I want to reiterate that from another source. Here are a few paragraphs excerpted from "Doing Business...
Hands on learning for startups, in an unforgettable place The AgilityFeat team is hard at work on some exciting changes this summer and some exciting things coming up over the next year. One of those projects that we will be talking a lot...
The finer points of bribing, and why you don't need to worry about it Doing business in another country can be very exciting, but also comes with a set of challenges. What is culturally or even ethically acceptable in one country is not...
What inspired you to start your own company? A particular passion? A desire for independence? Necessity? The ReadWriteWeb blog has an interesting post on the "Accidental Entrepreneur", which I came across from seeing the Penninsula...
David Alfaro and I had a good conversation with Jon Tonti from Nearshore Americas earlier this week that led to a nice blog post about the benefits of using agile in nearshore projects. You can read the full post here:...
We have explained before why we think nearshore agile is a good idea, but why choose Costa Rica over other Latin American countries? They all have convenient time zones for collaboration with US companies, labor costs are lower than they...
Retrospectives are important at higher levels than just your individual projects. At AgilityFeat we also hold retrospectives within our company and across our projects regularly. This is so we can look for patterns across our most...
How to have a well run remote standup session with your team. Standups are a key part of the agile and scrum process. Each standup is a time for our team to sync up with each other and the customer. It is also an opportunity to let our...
Bienvenidos a Costa Rica! We are very pleased to work with our clients in the United States and to be able to share a little bit of Costa Rica with you in the process. When your team comes to visit us in Costa Rica, please keep these...
Today we held the first of many future "AgilityCasts", where we record a short presentation by one of our team members on a topic related to agile software development, nearshore agile development in Costa Rica, or anything that suits our...
Last week we just finished up the kick off for a new project in the AgilityFeat Costa Rica offices. This is a fast growing area of business at AgilityFeat and one I am very pleased about, so I would like to take a little time to describe...