Staff Augmentation: How Clients Can See Augmented Developer Activity in Real Time
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Staff augmentation is now the fastest-growing segment of the outsourcing market, according to the Deloitte Global Outsourcing Survey. Yet the model introduces a paradox that most buyers discover too late. You've augmented your engineering team with external developers. They attend your standups, push to your repos, and bill you monthly. But when the invoice arrives, you have an uncomfortable thought: "I have no idea how these people actually spend their days."
You trust your in-house team because you see them in Slack, in code reviews, in the office. The augmented developers? They're a black box. And that black box is costing you tens of thousands of dollars a month.