We explore the possibilities offered by a programming model supporting components, workflows and skeletons. In particular we describe how STCM, an already existing programming model supporting components and workflows, can be extended to also provide algorithmic skeleton concepts. Programmers are therefore enabled to assembly applications specifying both temporal and spatial relations among components and instantiating predefined skeleton composite components to implement all those application parts that can be easily be modelled with the available skeletons. We discuss preliminary results as well as the benefits deriving from STKM adoption in a couple of real applications.