Dedicated
development teams
that work
with yours
Sometimes the problem isn't the plan. You know what to build, and you have people who understand the business. There just aren't enough of them.
* IT staff augmentation and dedicated development teams. Add developers, designers, QA and DevOps to your project, working to your priorities and your process.
When you have the project but not enough people
Staff augmentation for when you have the project, not the people
We put together engineering teams that work as part of yours. They join your meetings, your repositories and your definition of done, and you keep control of priorities and technical decisions. We supply the people, and the delivery lead to keep things moving if you want one.
Some companies call this IT staff augmentation, others resource augmentation or team augmentation. The word matters less than the arrangement: engineering staff working inside your team, accountable to you, for as long as the work lasts.
It can be one specialist filling a gap, or a full team owning a product area for years. It can grow when the roadmap grows, and shrink when it doesn’t.
Two ways it usually works
01
Staff augmentation
Individual specialists working inside the team you already have, sometimes called team augmentation. Best when your process works and you just need more capacity, or one skill you're missing.
02
A dedicated development team
A group working only on your product, with continuity over months and years. Best when you need someone to own a product area. Not just to help this quarter.
A team can include
A team
can include
We work with specialists across different countries and time zones — offshore staff augmentation, when that is the right answer. It is what makes it possible to find the right skill quickly, rather than waiting months for a local hire.
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Developers
Front-end, back end and full stack
A technical lead
Someone accountable for how it gets built
Designers
Interface and user experience
QA engineers
Testing that catches things before your customers do
DevOps and cloud specialists
Deployment, monitoring and infrastructure
Delivery management
Keeping the work visible and on track
Clear
answers
What people ask before any of this starts — including what we cannot promise.
Who directs the work. With staff augmentation, individual specialists join the team you already have and work to your process — best when the process works and you are short of capacity or one skill. A dedicated team owns a product area over months and years, with someone accountable for how it gets built. Our guide to staff augmentation versus outsourcing sets out the difference in who carries the risk.
Usually weeks rather than months, and a single specialist is faster than a full team. Our specialists are spread across several countries and time zones, which is what makes it possible to find a specific skill quickly instead of waiting for a local hire.
Yes, and most engagements do. It can grow when the roadmap grows and shrink when it does not. Many clients begin with a dedicated team and later hire the right people permanently onto their own payroll, which is the other service we run.
You keep priorities and technical decisions. A dedicated team can bring its own technical lead and delivery management if you want that accountability inside the team; with augmentation, the specialists work to your existing process and your leads.
Yes. You deal with the senior engineers, designers, QA and DevOps on your project — no account manager relaying messages, and nobody learning on your project at your expense.
Next step
Build your
team
You can hire a dedicated development team to own a product area for years, or one specialist to fill a gap. It can grow when the roadmap grows, and shrink when it doesn't.