Missing experience
A project may require a skill your team does not currently cover. Specify the work, expected responsibility, and experience needed to assess a suitable role.
Team extension for software delivery
Add specialist roles to the team you already manage. Define the skills, responsibilities, and involvement needed for your current delivery priorities, then agree how those roles join the work.
See the collaboration setupContact UsIdentify the gap before adding another person
Limited capacity
When existing specialists are overloaded, identify which work another contributor can take on and which dependencies remain with your team.
An approaching delivery requirement
Discuss the required start, access, and onboarding alongside availability. Staffing should be planned around the work rather than an assumed instant start.
Fit the role into your delivery structure
Establish responsibilities from the start
The setup produces a role brief, proposed involvement, onboarding checklist, and responsibility agreement. Work outputs are reviewed through your delivery process and the criteria agreed for the role.
Team Extension gives you a way to discuss a specific capacity or skill gap while retaining your existing product direction and coordination structure.
Prepare the role, then onboard against actual work
We review the requirement and collaboration expectations, discuss suitable availability, and agree the engagement terms. Onboarding establishes access and context before the contributor takes responsibility for assigned work.
An initial review checks whether the responsibilities, communication, and workload match the requirement. Any changes follow the agreed process.
Make the boundaries of involvement explicit
Specify who assigns work, reviews outputs, approves changes, and handles access. Agree working arrangements, availability, and replacement or notice terms. Role provision does not by itself include project management or responsibility for the entire release.
Illustrative example
Illustrative example: add QA capacity to an internal team
An internal team is preparing a release with several integrations. A QA role could take agreed test coverage and defect reporting, while the internal product and engineering owners retain prioritization and release approval. The role brief would identify the environments, scenarios, and review responsibilities.
Questions about team extension
Who manages the work?
Your delivery structure assigns and reviews the contributor’s work unless a different management responsibility is explicitly agreed.
Can one role cover several disciplines?
That depends on the tasks and the person’s verified experience. The role brief should make the required contribution specific rather than combining unrelated responsibilities.
How do we change the level of involvement?
Discuss the anticipated change and timing. Availability and engagement terms determine the options; capacity changes are not assumed to be immediate.
Describe the contribution your team is missing
Tell us the work, required experience, involvement, and collaboration expectations.