I love your optimism.

I've seen their implementation. It was horrible. We eventually took the project away from them and had the local team work on it.

Also a fun story: they didn't use version control at all. When we eventually forced them to use git, they put the whole codebase in a .zip file and committed that.

I've worked with offshore companies that are similarly as bad, but then again there have been some that have been excellent. In your case, I don't know how they lasted 6 months if they're not committing to git etc, if that's the standard. They should be brought into the daily standups as 6 months to wait for some delivery seems a bit waterfally (apologies if this is a mischaracterisation).

> They should be brought into the daily standups as 6 months to wait for some delivery seems a bit waterfally (apologies if this is a mischaracterisation).

At least it it a clear mischaracterisation of waterfall:

* https://changelog.com/posts/waterfall-doesnt-mean-what-you-t...

* HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37405049

* http://bawiki.com/wiki/Waterfall.html

* HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26760606

That's why I said waterfally

>daily standups

Daily what?

Luckily going to another employer soon, this place is a mess.

Your onshore contract handlers were definitely difficult to work with. The number 1 reason for bad work are bad managers. See Boeing.