[memracom]

In our company we had a team of Moscow developers. It did not work out because the person who was supposed to manage them was not doing that. We took the work in house. But this is not an outsourcing sob story. To do the work, we had added developers to our Vancouver team, and hired a second developer in Seattle. At the same time we added people in Virginia and added a second developer in Portsmouth England. This is one team of developers in 4 cities. At the same time we added a separate team in Spain, and yet another separate team of 40 people in Thailand.

It works, because we have good managers who pay attention to making it work. Good managers who are not looking for shortcuts and who encourage all developers in the company to be self-driven professionals who provide value to the business.

This is how to make remote teams work. Sofware craftsmanship etc.