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Most attempts to reduce software development costs make software more expensive. The instinct is reasonable. Costs are too high, find cheaper develope...

Every founder who comes to me asking for a fixed price on a software project is asking the wrong question. I get the instinct. You ve been burned befo...

A CTO I was talking to last month told me his investor had asked him about the outstaffing thing in a board meeting, and he didn t have a clean answ...

A CTO friend of mine just fired his offshore team. Productivity was about a quarter of what his local team could do, with no US time zone overlap and...

I built Full Scale because I needed the outstaffing model and couldn t find anyone doing it right. I was running Stackify, hiring as fast as I could i...

Outstaffing is staff augmentation under a different name. Same model, different vocabulary. If you re already getting fatigued by the comparison artic...

Open most articles about team augmentation and you ll get a long explanation of why it s fundamentally different from staff augmentation. It isn t. It...

I pay someone else to manage our server hosting. At Stackify, we hired a firm to run our Elasticsearch. Staffing a team to do either of those things w...

I never planned to start Full Scale. The staff augmentation example I want to walk you through is the one that turned into the company I run today. In...

A friend of mine, Brad Parker, got a ransom note from a developer he hired on Upwork. The dev had wrapped up the project. Technically. Then he threate...

For most of my career, I heard nothing but horror stories about offshore development. The complaints were always the same: language barriers, late-nig...

Years ago, my a local dev agency placed me with two Java engineers in St. Petersburg, Russia, and never told me. I was paying Kansas City rates for de...

Most engineering leaders find out about staff augmentation the same way: their local hiring pipeline isn t keeping up, and someone in a Slack DM menti...

I started Full Scale because I needed to augment my existing team, not hand a project off to an agency. That s not a marketing line. It s the actual r...

We have five developers working on your project. Great! Can I meet with them? No, but you can talk to me. That exchange happens more than any of...