Scaling a software team quickly is one of the biggest challenges for growing tech companies. With high developer salaries and fierce competition for talent in the US, many companies struggle to find the right engineers at the right time....
Remote Culture & Collaboration
The Rise of Micro-Centers: Why SMEs are Establishing Nearshore Hubs
Small and mid-sized businesses with 100, 50, or even just 20 employees are now doing something that used to require Fortune 500 budgets and infrastructure: they’re launching remote subsidiaries. What was once the exclusive territory of...
An AgilityFeat 13-Year Success Story in Large-Scale Nearshore Staffing
In December 2012, AgilityFeat received a call from a logistics software company looking for a team that could build a proof of concept for an innovative real-time data dashboard. This was the beginning of a business relationship that has...
How Hackathons Drive Innovation and Team Bonding in Dev Teams
Recently, members of our AgilityFeat and WebRTC.ventures teams gathered in Panamá for an AI training session. Although we’ve already helped multiple clients build successful AI-powered products, we wanted to establish best practices that...
Using the Lean Penny Flipping Game to Demonstrate Lean Principles
You’ve probably heard before that if you multitask too much, you are not really accomplishing anything. This is especially true for software development teams, which often face multiple stakeholders pushing conflicting priorities—each...
Best Practices for 1-1s with Your Nearshore Team
One-on-one meetings, also often referred to as "1-1s" or “O3s,” are a powerful tool for leaders to connect with their team members on an individual level. This is especially important when managing remote or nearshore teams, where regular...
Maintaining a Unified Company Culture Across Borders
For engineering managers and CFOs, the success of nearshoring software development teams isn’t just about hiring skilled developers or optimizing costs—it’s about building a cohesive team that feels united, regardless of location. When...
Five Common Pitfalls in Nearshoring and How to Avoid Them
Nearshoring has become a popular strategy for engineering managers and CFOs looking to expand their development teams efficiently. The ability to collaborate with skilled developers in nearby time zones, often at a lower cost, makes it an...
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Best Practices for Working with Remote Teams
As the COO of AgilityFeat, I’ve had the privilege of working alongside incredible U.S. companies and talented developers across Latin America to build nearshore software development teams that truly thrive. Over the past decade, we’ve...
Managing Holidays Across Borders: Best Practices for International Development Teams
Global software development teams are a major part of most companies today. They offer many benefits to US companies, including access to additional technical talent pools, diverse thought and experience, enhanced company culture, and of...
What to Share With Your Contract Development Team: A Complete Guide to Information Access
During the onboarding process, after we’ve built a custom team of Latin American software developers for a U.S. client, we’re often asked: “How much information should we share with our contract engineers?” It’s a nuanced question, but...
Beyond “Resources”: Building Stronger Contract Software Development Teams
At AgilityFeat, we've been building Latin American development teams for US companies since 2010, offering staff augmentation and Build-Operate-Transfer models as a flexible way to expand technical capabilities without the overhead of...
Amplifying Your Contract Development Team
As Aviv Ben-Yosef wisely noted in Episode 45 of the Scaling Tech Podcast, "Life is too short to lead an average team." This principle resonates deeply when building and managing external software development teams, as AgilityFeat does in...
The AgilityFeat Advantage: Optimizing Your Software Development Team’s Potential
Finding the right partner to help you build and manage your software development team is crucial. AgilityFeat stands out as a leader in technical staffing and development in Latin America, offering unique solutions tailored to your needs....
Welcome to AgilityFeat: Your Partner in Technical Staffing and Development in Latin America
Welcome to AgilityFeat! We are your complete solution for technical staffing in Latin America, offering a range of services to help US companies build and manage software development teams in the region. Whether you need staff...