Staff Augmentation vs Dedicated Team

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.

Related Terms

  • Staff Augmentation vs Consulting

    Staff augmentation adds engineers who work under your direction; consulting brings experts who diagnose a problem and own advice or a deliverable. Augmentation buys capacity, while consulting buys judgement.

  • Team Scaling

    Team scaling is growing or shrinking an engineering team's size and skill mix to match workload while keeping delivery speed and quality steady. It involves hiring routes, team structure and process, not headcount alone.

  • Dedicated Development Team

    A dedicated team is an engagement model where a provider assembles a group of engineers who work full time on one client's product for an extended period. The client sets direction and priorities; the provider handles hiring, employment and retention.

  • Staff Augmentation

    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.

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