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Diagnosis

Capability · Delivery

The mission is clear. What's missing is someone to deliver it, and you don't want to manage another team.

You define the mission and Tessa delivers it. We size the squad to the budget we agree on, run the execution and answer for the result. You track the delivery. You don't manage the team.

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When it makes sense

When does Squad as a Service make sense?

  • The mission has a defined scope and a definition of done
  • You want to buy delivery, not manage another team
  • No technical leader has the bandwidth to take on another workstream
  • The budget is known and the team has to fit within it

When it doesn't

When is Squad as a Service the wrong answer?

  • The mission isn't clear yet. A squad delivers what was agreed. If what was agreed is wrong, it delivers the wrong thing fast
  • There's no named internal owner to track progress and give feedback along the way

Method

We start with the context. Not with the role

  1. Understanding

    A real conversation about the problem. The right questions change the diagnosis.

  2. Diagnosis

    Which capability is missing: advice, leadership, expertise or execution.

  3. Composition

    The right format: for what, who, for how long.

  4. Curation and integration

    Selection by context, technical and cultural, plus support at the start of the engagement.

  5. Staying close

    We stay close to the client and to the professional, adjusting the composition as the relationship evolves.

01–03 · before any proposal

04–05 · once the engagement starts

  • Predictabilityfor your company
  • Carefor every professional
  • Sustainabilityof the relationship

How it starts

How do the diagnosis and the engagement begin?

A diagnosis of the mission: what has to exist at the end, by what definition of done, and by when. The squad design and the budget come after that, never before.

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Other models

The right capability may be a different one

Advice

Tech Advisory

People who have led technology at scale, as a second opinion on the decisions you can't get wrong.

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Leadership or expertise

Fractional

Executives (CTO, CIO) or specialists (UX, DevOps, QA, AI, DBA, SRE) for a few hours a week.

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Execution

Staff Augmentation

Professionals and squads embedded in your operation, including teams that use AI to amplify delivery.

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Hiring

Hunting

Search plus technical and behavioral assessment, with the context understood before the job description.

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