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 Ford | Feb 28, 2014 | Outsource, Startups
This week, CIO.com published an article by Jonathan Hassell called “What CIOs Need to Know Before Relying on Startups”. The article lays out the list of pros of working with startups: disruptive technology and extreme flexibility to work with you....
Written by Ford | Feb 13, 2014 | Outsource, Startups
What do you do when have an idea for a web-based business but don’t know how to get started? Do you need to learn to go unicorn hunting, I mean, go find a technical co-founder? Finding a technical co-founder has become part of the start-up vernacular in recent years...
Written by Ford | Feb 6, 2014 | Customer Development, Outsource, Projects, Startups
For the past two months I’ve had the pleasure of working with incredible Steph Hay on the development of her application, Tougher.Me. Tougher.Me is Steph’s first web product and we asked her to share some of her experiences talking to customers and...
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 | Jan 9, 2014 | Design, Events, Outsource, Projects, Startups
2014 is only 9 days old and before we get too far into the new year, we wanted to take a look back at our top posts from 2013. We covered a great deal of ground last year on our blog, including our experiences developing products via distributed agile, Ruby on Rails,...
