Dedicated Team, Team Augmentation or Managed Delivery?
How to choose the nearshore delivery model that fits your project
When a nearshore engagement struggles, the first suspect is usually the people. In our experience, the cause is more often the setup around them. Strong engineers placed in the wrong delivery model run into unclear ownership, slow decisions and knowledge that leaves with them. Choosing the model deliberately is one of the simplest ways to protect a project.
The easiest way to decide is to ask one question: who owns the outcome? With Team Augmentation, you do. With a Dedicated Nearshore Team, ownership is shared. With Managed Project Delivery, we take it on.
Team Augmentation works best when you already have a functioning team, a technical lead and a clear backlog, but a specific skill is missing or the pace has to increase. Senior specialists join your sprints, tools and rituals and work as part of your team, while you keep full control over priorities and delivery. Because we propose matching profiles within 48 hours and the setup scales up or down without a long-term commitment, this model suits skill gaps, peaks and time-critical phases.
A Dedicated Nearshore Team is the right choice when you build or run a product for the long term. A stable team from our nearshore hubs works only for you, grows step by step and builds domain knowledge that stays in the team. You set the direction and the product priorities; we take care of recruiting, onboarding, retention and team growth, in the same or an adjacent time zone.
Managed Project Delivery fits when the goal is clear but nobody in-house has the capacity to steer the work. We take end-to-end responsibility from scope to go-live, on a fixed-price or time-and-materials basis. You buy a result rather than hours, and you work with one accountable partner instead of coordinating individual specialists.
In practice, three questions settle most decisions. Do you have technical leadership in-house to steer the work? If not, managed delivery is the safer path. Do you need a few specific skills or a whole team? A few skills point to augmentation. Is this long-term product work where the knowledge must stay? Then a dedicated team pays off. The models are not mutually exclusive: an engagement can start with augmentation and grow into a dedicated team once the collaboration has proven itself.
If you are unsure which model fits your project, talk to one of our delivery leads. In 30 minutes, free and non-binding, we look at your goals and suggest a setup, including matching profiles and a price range.