Erica Hartmann

In this guide: • What agile staff augmentation is (and what it isn’t) • Why companies search for it - the six triggers • Agile vs traditional staff augmentation • Roles you can augment • Individuals vs pre-formed teams • Onshore vs nearshore - with 2026 day rates • What it actually costs • How to make it work, common mistakes, and FAQs When Your Team Isn't Big Enough to Deliver What the Business Needs Your backlog is growing. The deadline is...

Everybody wants to be trusted and to trust those around them, right? Trust is something that we all rely upon in our interpersonal relationships – but how many times have you heard a colleague say (or thought or said yourself), ‘I wouldn’t trust them as far as I could throw them..’, about a co-worker or business acquaintance. Surely if this were the case in your personal life, you would very quickly distance yourself from such a person? So, how can a working relationship be completely...

“Find the autonomy in your work. Autonomy is key to feeling good about the work you do, no matter what kind of work it is.” – JEAN CHATZKY We all talk about empowerment of our people and how that is an enabler for truly Agile ways of working. Have you ever stopped to consider what empowerment and autonomy truly means, what it demands, how it can go wrong and how you can prevent that? Sure, you can motivate people in a big way by granting autonomy, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that they...