Staff augmentation is an engagement model where a company adds outside engineers to its own team for a set period, managing their work directly. The provider sources and employs them; the client keeps control of priorities, process and delivery.
Staff augmentation supplies individual engineers who work under your leads; a dedicated team is a complete squad, with its own lead, built around your product. The choice changes your management load and how the work scales.
Staff augmentation supplies engineers who work under your direction; managed services hands an ongoing function to a provider bound by service levels. One buys capacity, the other buys a running outcome with defined accountability.
Staff augmentation and outsourcing differ in who directs the work and who carries delivery risk. Augmentation adds outside engineers to a team you manage; outsourcing hands a project or function to a provider that runs delivery.
Staff augmentation embeds contract engineers in your team for a period; permanent staffing finds people you hire as your own employees. What separates them is who employs the engineer and for how long.
Co-employment is when two organisations share employer rights and duties for the same workers. It typically involves a client company and a staffing firm or PEO, and raises questions about liability and benefits.
Custom software development is building software for one organisation's own processes, users or products instead of buying a packaged or SaaS tool. The organisation owns the roadmap and usually the code, and pays for design, build and ongoing maintenance.
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