The better you are at feature-driven development, estimating as a team, measuring team velocity, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and automated testing…

…the less necessary you have made it to co-locate your people. The investment you have made in these areas has given you the ability to grow without limits by taking advantage of off-site talent to augment your teams. Spinning up a team in India allows you to offload some work, but a separate “team” in a dissimilar time zone doesn’t allow you to properly leverage any of these advancements you have made. An off-site team in a similar time zone is definitely better, but since you have made the investment, why not truly maximize it?  By augmenting your current teams with number8 consultants, you can add the specific talent you need on the teams that need it.  There’s very little additional communication overhead needed because of 1) the skill level of number8 consultants, 2) the fact that they’re embedded in your teams and working on your schedule and 3) the Agile processes you have in place.  Number8 allows you to increase velocity overnight and maintain it without changing the way your teams work.

Try us and you will see!