Est. Read Time: 9 min Adding nearshore engineers to your team solves a capacity or skill gap problem. Managing them well is what determines whether that investment pays off. The companies that struggle with nearshore engineering are almost always the ones that add remote engineers to an existing team structure without adapting their management practices. […]
Est. Read Time: 8 min Agile was designed by people in the same room. “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools” — the first Agile value — implicitly assumes that individuals are in proximity to interact. When your team is distributed across time zones, that assumption breaks. But Agile doesn’t fail with distributed teams. Poorly […]
Est. Read Time: 7 min Most engineering onboarding plans are either too vague (“here’s a Notion page with some links, explore the codebase”) or too prescriptive (“complete these 47 training modules and then you can start coding”). Neither produces engineers who are productive and confident after 30 days. A good 30-day onboarding plan has a […]