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Staff augmentation and dedicated teams
Staff augmentation adds engineers to your team while you direct the work; a dedicated team works only on your product for a long period. Our pods are a lead architect, senior full-stack engineers and a QA lead, embedded in about two weeks with four to six hours of daily overlap with US and European time zones.
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Engineering PracticeOct 15, 2026·7 min read
Staff augmentation vs dedicated team vs outsourcing
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- Time and materialsA contract billed on the hours and resources used. Flexible when scope will change, with less price certainty than fixed price.
- Staff augmentationAdding external engineers to your team for a project or period, with you managing their work day to day.
- Dedicated development teamA group of engineers who work only on your product over a long period, usually billed monthly.
- Engineering podA small, self-managing team, usually an architect, engineers and QA, that owns delivery of a product or part of one.
- Offshore developmentBuilding software with a team in a distant country, often at lower cost. The main thing to plan for is time-zone overlap.
- Nearshore developmentBuilding software with a team in a nearby country or time zone, which makes real-time collaboration easier, usually at a higher cost than offshore.
- Technical screeningAssessing an engineer's skills with a structured test or interview before hiring.