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If your company needed to double its software development capacity in 30 days, what would happen?<\/p>\n

For most technology managers in Brazil, the honest answer is that it wouldn’t be possible. The hiring process would take weeks, onboarding months, and the internal team is already stretched to its limit. That is exactly the scenario that the Squad as a Service<\/strong> model was created to solve.<\/p>\n

In this guide, you will understand what the model is, how it works in practice, when it makes sense to hire one, how much it costs and how to compare it with other alternatives available in the market, including NextAge’s Staff Augmentation<\/strong>, an evolution of the model that solves problems the traditional squad does not.<\/p>\n

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What is Squad as a Service?<\/h2>\n

Squad as a Service (SqaaS)<\/strong> is an IT outsourcing model in which a company hires, externally, a complete and dedicated multidisciplinary team to work on its technology projects.<\/p>\n

The squad can include front-end and back-end developers, software engineers, QA, tech lead, UX\/UI designer, product owner and Scrum Master, according to the needs of the project and the company’s current stage.<\/p>\n

The central difference from hiring individual professionals (what the market calls body shop<\/em>) lies precisely in the idea of a team: you do not receive a professional to fit into your existing team; you receive a group that already operates together, with an established agile methodology, defined sprint rituals and technical management included.<\/p>\n

The model also goes by other names: dedicated agile team<\/em>, team as a service<\/em> or on-demand squad<\/em>. All refer to the same logic, having, in practice, an internal technology team, without the hiring overhead, without the recruitment timeline and with the flexibility to scale up or down as demand changes.<\/p>\n

How does it work in practice?<\/h2>\n

The process generally follows these steps:<\/p>\n