Developers.Net is a group of software CTO's from successful companies where software development throughput had stalled. Looking for reasons why, we found it always came down to getting the right person, in the right place at the right time. In trying to solve the problem through classic staff augmentation and managed services methods, we realized that we were either losing speed in our execution, killing our quality or threatening our budget. After quite a bit of struggle, and meeting with CTO's from many different companies to find out what worked and what didn’t, we found a pattern of success to the nearshore software development.