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Since the early days of the Internet and dot-com boom, technology companies have embraced the idea of temporary contract workers. During this period, tech startups were being established at an amazing pace, so tech skills were in high demand.

Staff Augmentation is a business practice that can be traced as far back as the Industrial Revolution. Notable advancements in industry drove the need for a flexible workforce that businesses could scale up or down according to available jobs.

Sprint Zero, also known as Iteration Zero, is the preparatory stage of an Agile project that focuses on setting up the necessary infrastructure, gathering requirements, defining the scope of the project, and creating the initial backlog of user stories.

Your next release is three months away. The roadmap needs a senior backend engineer with payments experience, and nobody on the team has it. Hiring a permanent employee would mean posting a job, running several rounds of interviews, waiting out a notice period, and onboarding. By the time that person writes production code, the release date has passed.

Clutch alone lists more than 9,200 software development companies in the USA. Most of them look the same on paper: agile teams, modern tech stack, happy clients. The real differences usually show up once the project is underway.

US engineering salaries have not slowed down, and neither has the pressure to ship more with the same headcount. The median annual wage for software developers in the US reached $135,980 in May 2025, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, before employer-side benefits, payroll tax, and recruiting costs get added on top, and the top 10% of earners cleared $214,670.

Most companies that try nearshore software development already know what Agile is. Fewer have thought through what changes when you put the two together: a distributed team running iterative sprints, with substantially more working-hour overlap than a distant offshore team would provide.

Big tech companies have contributed manifold to software development technology over the years. The .NET framework invented by Microsoft has achieved all of this and more.

React Native is an open-source framework based on Javascript that Facebook (Meta) developed to build its mobile apps for iOS and Android using a single codebase.