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4 common mistakes CTO’s must avoid when building an extended development team

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If you follow it, you’ll be guaranteed to get a development team that helps not hinders your development roadmap. What is an extended development team (and why you should want one)? It’s sometimes called staff augmentation but while staff argumentation can be for one developer, by definition a team has multiple members.

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Delving deeper into the dedicated team model of offshore software development?

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With dedicated offshore teams, the level of talent is so important because it’s about long-term value, collaboration, and cultural alignment — and not cost optimisation”. Dedicated teams to the rescue. While all offshore team builders have different ideas about what’s best — they all have a refined model of doing things.

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Offshore vs nearshore software development: which route to take?

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This can be leveraged positively, as developers in one location begin before the team at home, meaning more development hours per day. However, for some businesses the proximity factor poses a challenge and they need an extended team a little closer to home. DOWNLOAD EBOOK. Overcoming the UK and Irish talent crunch.