Team Augmentation
Pre-flight or mid-flight, we can augment your teams and projects.
If you have a gap in people or capabilities we can help with leadership and hands-on team augmentation. We worked in teams of all kinds, across a diverse range of business domains.
We can augment these teams
Front-end Engineering
We’re recognised experts, leaders, and OSS maintainers in modern JavaScript tooling and practices, including React & React Native, GraphQL, Next.js, & Keystone.
UX & UI
Our team includes experienced, code-literate product designers who thrive in cross-functional teams – from startups to enterprise-scale environments.
Back-end & Node.js
We bring decades of expertise to the making of sophisticated back-end architecture and build/maintain popular node-based open source projects.
Research & Product
We’ve researched, defined, and delivered compelling products for some great companies, and can help strengthen your team’s capability to do the same.
Thinkmill felt right at home in our team. They tuned in to our people, systems, and goals in rapid time and delivered high quality work from the outset. We couldn’t have asked for a better partner.
Andrew Sladen
Director Of Engineering, Koala
Teams we’ve helped
ABC
We helped the ABC’s platform team with architectural support during their record-breaking online coverage of the 2022 federal election.
We helped Reckon establish a unified GraphQL platform, design system, & front-end strategy for their digital product range.
Macquarie Bank
We embedded within Macquarie’s design and marketing functions to conceive and deliver a resource portal for their multifaceted brand architecture.
Australian Digital Health Agency
In collaboration with Meld Studios, we helped the ADHA’s team improve the future My Health Record experience for Australians.
Safety Culture
We helped Safety Culture’s engineering team improve the user experience of their inspection app support in React, TypeScript, & design system components.
Dovetail called on us to augment engineering resource for the release of their new blog The Outlier.
We bolstered Atlassian’s internal team to help on their design system, Jira, Confluence, and platform performance.
We bolstered Koala’s engineering capacity for the rollout of their onboarding welcome flow and multi-channel marketing integrations.
Scentre Group
We assisted Scentre Group with the design and implementation of their design system to support Westfield’s multichannel digital products and platforms.
Vocal wouldn’t be what it is today without Thinkmill. The team shaped the product visually, technically, and ethically, as we grew from a hunch to a multi-million user network.
Justin Maury
Chief Operating Officer, Vocal
More than capacity
Safe hands for how your team works
We work alongside your team to find the practices worth investing in, then embed them so they last. Better code review, clearer design decisions, sharper delivery rhythms. Whatever moves the needle for your context.
Coaching & Capability Building
Our people bring years of practice in how high-performing teams operate. They coach your team on engineering practices, design collaboration, and delivery habits that outlast the engagement – so the knowledge stays with you.
Embedding better ways of working
Whether it’s adopting new tooling, improving code review culture, or bridging design-engineering collaboration, our people embed smarter ways of working from inside the team – not as external consultants dictating from the sidelines.
Getting started
How does augmentation work?
Clear rates and simple contracts. We make augmentation easy.
Understand your team & goals
It starts with business goals. Help us understand your objectives so we can work backwards from that.
Hand-pick the right team
Whether it’s capacity, or a very niche capability, we’ll pick the best suited Thinkmillers to augment your team.
Get to work
Our team will join yours for as long as needed, and bring all their experience to bear on the shared goal.
Frequently Asked Questions
We understand that your organisation may want to boost in-house capacity rather than outsource the work. That’s why at Thinkmill, we offer team augmentation as a way of tapping into our expertise, whilst still utilising your internal team.
The main benefit of team augmentation is that we can understand your goals and processes more holistically. This lets our people advise on decisions and best practices that are relevant to your world. Additionally, the knowledge built throughout the engagement stays within your organisation.
Contact us to talk about how we can level-up your team.
We can bring a range of roles and capabilities to support your existing team, from project-level leaders through to individual contributors with deep technical expertise. Our practical skills span user research, UX/UI design, design systems, front-end engineering, API platform engineering, project management, accessibility, and more. Thinkmillers are smart, adaptable, and often skilled in more than one discipline, which makes them highly effective collaborators across a range of teams and contexts.
Flexibility is the key to how we fit into your team.
We place a lot of value on forging positive interpersonal relationships through open communication, and believe this is an essential component of achieving success in any project. Where possible, we like to kick-off projects with an in-person meeting to build the right foundations of trust and cooperation for the rest of the engagement.
When it comes to tooling and tech, we’re flexible. We’ll work with the software you prefer, whether that’s video calls, project management, emails or messaging. Most of our people are situated in Australian Eastern Standard Time, but we’re no strangers to effective asynchronous communication. We’re adept at finding the right balance of real-time collaboration, and getting things done outside of your regular working hours. We’ve built many successful products, platforms, and websites with clients in the US, Asia, and EU.
Need more safe hands in your delivery team?