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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...

For most of my career, I heard nothing but horror stories about offshore development. It also helps to know how staff augmentation compares to a PEO o...

Years ago, a local dev agency placed me with two Java engineers in St. Petersburg, Russia, and never told me. Today the smarter play is to hire dedica...

“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...

Here’s the problem with most offshore development due diligence: You’re asking the wrong questions. You ask, “How many developers do you have?” They a...

Building an accurate software development project timeline is one of the hardest jobs a CTO has, and most teams are bad at it. I have shipped software...

We’ve seen the playbook, and we’ve lived its limitations. The SaaS model has been dominant for decades, but the way we build software is shifting. AI...