IT staff augmentation is a delivery strategy that an IT staffing firm may offer you to maintain your competitive advantage. Staff augmentation services temporarily increase the size of your software engineering team with qualified people during a project or during specific phases.
Project outsourcing has its pros and cons, as well as differs from staff augmentation in several significant ways.
The primary distinction between staff augmentation and project outsourcing is that with staff augmentation, you buy engineering resources while still having direct control over your team. In contrast, with the outsourcing model, you pay for a predetermined result and share the risk with the outsourcing provider while sacrificing direct control over some aspects of your business operations.