In some projects, having a night shift can be a tremendous advantage. It works particular well in extremely agile environments with fast assignment->deployment turnarounds. For example, if the night shift does daily deployments, then the parent does QA during the day and sends fixes/new requests before the start of the night shift.
Other times, particularly if the project has complicated architectural requirements, it's too hard to get the night shift on the same page a super the parent.
Other times, particularly if the project has complicated architectural requirements, it's too hard to get the night shift on the same page a super the parent.