Overview
IT outsourcing is hiring an external company to handle software development, infrastructure, or support instead of building that capability in-house. It ranges from full project delivery to staff augmentation, where outsourced developers join and work inside an existing in-house team.
Why it matters
Hiring, onboarding, and retaining an in-house team is slow and expensive, especially for work that’s project-based or needs skills a company doesn’t need permanently. Outsourcing trades some direct day-to-day control for speed and access to talent — a trade that pays off with an accountable partner, and backfires without one.
How Dotcode applies it
We work either as a full outsourced delivery team or as staff augmentation, depending on what a client actually needs — see the distinction in our Staff Augmentation glossary entry.
