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Developer burnout costs companies the equivalent of 80% of a senior engineer’s annual salary in turnover, per Gallup. Here are the 7 warning signs eve...

Development team extension explained by a 4x founder. What the model is, when it works, what it costs ($30-40/hr), and how to pick a partner without g...

My brother-in-law lives in the Philippines and works at Jollibee, the country’s largest fast food chain. He makes about $1.25 an hour. My sister-in-la...

As the founder of Full Scale, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders over the last few years about their offshore experiences. I’ve heard every horror st...

A startup founder called me this week about a problem he thought was about offshore. His team in Pakistan is fast. When he tells them what’s broken, t...

I have hired offshore dedicated development teams as a CTO, and I have sold them as a CEO. The lessons I would write today are not the ones in the res...

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. We compare PEO, EOR, and staff augmentation for hir...

Outstaffing and outsourcing aren’t the same thing. One builds a long-term team, the other buys a finished project. Here’s how to know which one you ne...

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. It is a textbook case of the scams on Upwork that hit the person...