The extended team model is a way to scale development operations by adding additional team members in another location either full-time or part-time. It’s sometimes called staff augmentation but while staff argumentation can be for one developer, by definition a team has multiple members.
Team extensions can be for limited project-based work when you need a specific skill for a short time, or when you need to ramp up development to hit a pressing deadline. It’s more common, however, for team extensions to be a longer-term solution to offer continual support for a development team.
Dedicated team vs Staff augmentation vs Team extension
- Dedicated Team: a complete software development team including project managers provided by a third party working on a specific project
- Staff Augmentation: additional employees from a third-party provider to fill short-term skills gaps in an in-house team
- Team Extension: Multiple team members provided by a third party to scale an in-house development team for a single project or ongoing basis
What are the benefits of a team extension?
The exact benefits you can expect depend on the specifics of the model you adopt.
There are, however, some general benefits you can expect including faster hiring, access to niche skills, and lower overheads. These benefits provide strategic advantages for IT leaders to:
- hit development deadlines
- optimise their tech budgets
- cover short and long-term skills gaps
Some extended tech development teams provide additional benefits including extending development time by operating in other time zones and the extent of these benefits depends on which provider you partner with.
Source of content: https://thescalers.com/4-common-mistakes-to-avoid-when-building-an-extended-development-team/
Among many other debatable topics, the one with a choice between native apps or web apps takes top slots.
If truth be told, this debate can truly be regarded as old as the advent of technology itself.
If we go back a few years before the arrival of smartphones, most of the applications worked only on computer systems.
Be it Native apps or web ones, if the current trends hold true, whether direct or indirect in their relation, then AR/VR app development will have a huge part to play in their future.
You might have used a furniture store app like that of IKEA, or might have played that highly addictive Pokemon Go.
While such AR is very adept in terms of technical prowess, engaging the people enough with marketing so that they really download the app will always be a complicated proposition.
