Can your team ship your
Adobe Commerce roadmap?
A 4-minute diagnostic. Twelve questions on your roadmap pressure, team readiness, and staffing flexibility. Get a score, a gap diagnosis, and the specific moves that close the gap.
- ■Planning an Adobe Commerce / Magento roadmap in the next 6–18 months
- ■Struggling to hire senior Adobe Commerce developers at market rates
- ■Weighing in-house hiring versus extending your team with an external partner
- ■Replacing, extending, or supplementing a current Magento agency
When you hire dedicated developers — also called staff augmentation, team extension, or a dedicated development team — you extend your engineering team with senior Adobe Commerce / Magento specialists who join your team and report to your engineering managers, but are employed by a specialist partner. You get senior talent in weeks rather than months of recruiting, you keep full ownership of your roadmap and code, and you can scale up or down without the cost of full-time commitment.
What you score
- ◆ Roadmap pressure
- ◆ Team readiness
- ◆ Delivery flexibility
What you get back
- ◆ Capacity score + band diagnosis
- ◆ Radar visualization
- ◆ Specific moves that close the gap
Who built this
Elogic Commerce — Adobe Silver Partner, #1 Clutch-ranked Magento agency, 200+ specialists, ISO 27001 + SOC 2 Type II.
Email is requested at the end to unlock your personalized score. No newsletter drip. One-time capture
How much have you committed to ship?
How much have you committed to ship, and what's at risk if it slips.
How many Adobe Commerce / Magento initiatives are on your 12-month roadmap?
Counting B2B features, integrations, headless builds, migrations — anything needing Magento developer hours.
What's the business impact if your Adobe Commerce roadmap slips by 3 months?
Be honest. Missed launches, held revenue, delayed campaigns, contract risk.
Do you have roadmap items currently blocked by missing Adobe Commerce capacity?
Items deprioritized or postponed because the team can't get to them.
Are you running a replatform, migration, or major Adobe Commerce expansion in the next 12 months?
Transformation-scale work compounds capacity pressure.
Who's actually on your team today?
Who you have today, and how fast you can hire more.
How many senior Adobe Commerce developers do you have on your team today?
Senior = 5+ years of Magento / Adobe Commerce experience, able to own complex work unsupervised.
How long did it take to fill your last senior Adobe Commerce role (or how long has it been open)?
End-to-end: from requisition opened to start date.
What's your Adobe Commerce team's current utilization?
Utilization = booked hours / capacity. Sustained >85% is a burnout and delivery risk.
Do you have in-house expertise for complex Adobe Commerce work (B2B, headless, ERP integration)?
Architecture-level decisions on complex builds need a senior Magento architect.
How fast can you close a gap?
How quickly you can close a capacity gap when it opens.
How quickly can you add a senior Adobe Commerce developer to your team?
Direct hire vs staff augmentation changes this dramatically.
Can you scale your team down without restructuring costs when a project ends?
Full-time employees carry termination costs, notice periods, and morale risk.
Are you comfortable running a hybrid in-house + external team model?
Staff augmentation works best when your engineering management can integrate external developers day-to-day.
How dependent is your Adobe Commerce programme on a single person or small team?
Key-person risk on Magento roadmaps is one of the most under-priced risks in ecommerce.
Your team looks well-staffed
The exact score, category breakdown, radar, and specific moves to close your capacity gap are in the next step.
See my capacity gap
One-time email. No drip. A senior Elogic Commerce architect may follow up only if your scenario looks like a fit.
Where your pain is concentrated
The shaded area shows the shape of your capacity pain. Larger = more risk. The dashed outline is the 'well-staffed' threshold (≤3/12 per category).
These are specific, actionable moves that address the root cause — not generic advice. Each comes with how Elogic Commerce specifically helps.
The capacity partner for enterprise Adobe Commerce.
About hiring Adobe Commerce developers
Staff augmentation means hiring senior Adobe Commerce / Magento developers who join your team and report to your engineering managers, but are employed by a specialist partner. You get senior talent in weeks rather than months of recruiting, you keep full ownership of your roadmap and code, and you can scale the team up or down without full-time employment commitments. It's also called dedicated Magento team, team extension, or extending your engineering team.
Hire in-house when Adobe Commerce is a permanent core capability, you have a 24+ month stable roadmap, you have engineering management capacity to retain senior Magento talent, and knowledge retention materially outweighs execution speed. Extend your team externally when you're shipping a defined roadmap rather than building a permanent discipline, time-to-hire exceeds your delivery window, you need elasticity to scale down post-launch, or your internal engineering management is already at capacity.
Senior Adobe Commerce developer salaries in 2026 range from $117,000 to $150,000 per year in the United States, £51,000 to £70,000 in the United Kingdom, $83,000 to $110,000 across Western Europe, and $62,000 to $104,000 across Eastern Europe. Fully loaded cost adds 20 to 30 percent on top of gross salary. Staff augmentation rates typically run $45 to $110 per hour for senior Adobe Commerce developers in Central and Eastern Europe, or $80 to $150 in Western Europe.
Direct in-house hiring of a senior Adobe Commerce developer typically takes 4 to 6 months end-to-end across Europe and the US, including sourcing, interviews, offer negotiation, and notice periods. Senior roles can stretch to 3 to 6 months of notice alone. Staff augmentation partners can typically onboard a vetted senior Adobe Commerce developer within 2 to 4 weeks.
Staff augmentation extends your existing team with senior developers who work under your direction — you control roadmap, priorities, and day-to-day decisions. Outsourcing hands over a defined project to a vendor who delivers an outcome under their own management. Staff augmentation preserves your ownership and control; outsourcing trades control for a managed delivery commitment.
Scoring model calibrated to enterprise Adobe Commerce delivery patterns across 500+ projects since 2009. Band thresholds based on observed correlations between capacity score and delivery slippage. Higher score indicates more acute capacity pressure.