This is absolutely true- a two, three or four person team where they all have similar skills, similar ideas of good coding practices and a tight-knit method of

This is absolutely true- a two, three or four person team where they all have similar skills, similar ideas of good coding practices and a tight-knit method of idea sharing can blast through code and get things done in 24 hours that I've seen distributed teams of 15 in Pakistan, Mexico and India perform in 60-180 days. (In this specific case I am thinking of building out an MPI statistical patient matching). I'm not saying that kind of skill isn't found in those countries - but I'm specifically talking about a US company trying to do a software project like that. I'm fully aware a team in Pakistan that can plan and perform really well locally when the idea and project is thought of in Pakistan.