Time differences can be either a disadvantage, or can be an advantage. A disadvantage, since you can't communicate with your remote development team every minute of the working day. An advantage, because your remote team will work upon updates in the time your office is closed. And they can have it finished before you enter the office again, the next morning.
If you'd like to have the maximum benefit from overlapping hours, please consider to adjust working hours of employees in your office or ofcourse at the remote office (or both). A lot of our partners and their teams are open to this solution.
And schedule all meetings, like daily scrums/e-meetings in the golden hours. The overlapping hours.
Myth 1 - Outstaffing limits the ownership of the code. As opposed to outsourcing, where the code is most often owned by the company who is producing it, when using outstaffing you're in control and have direct ownership of the code. This comes in ...
This will be dependant on your current situation and the outstaffing solution you'll finally choose. Going to India will probably save you more than a solution in Central and Eastern Europe. However, all solutions have their pros and cons, for sure. ...
In our opinion it doesn't matter in which branche you're in. In most cases you can: – significantly reduce the time to market – find experts you can't find in your own area – easily scale up and down your team – save 25-75% on your development And ...
First of all, hereby an explanation of what outsourcing and outstaffing is. In case of outsourcing, your development partner will work on a project. They're project responsible and the client has rarely access to the development team itself. The ...
A question we got recently: I'm from the US. Can you help me? The answer is: absolutely! Most of our development partners are located in Central and Eastern Europe and Asia. So, there will be a significant time difference. However: you can use that ...