Yep, had this a few times in the past 25 years. I am good at working remotely with people, but it taught me that, before trusting, I have to sit with people thr

Yep, had this a few times in the past 25 years. I am good at working remotely with people, but it taught me that, before trusting, I have to sit with people through a few sprints. It is hard to fake who is doing the work if you go in hard and work with the team for a few weeks. Not many (including very, very large shops) have the resources to fake that (note that you need ‘evil’ agents who are also good at what they do in software dev and in my world that seldom mixes); it will be easy to detect if they drop the ball after. Since taking this approach I have had only solid outsourcing experiences. But yes, lost a lot of credit & money before that realisation.