Staff Augmentation
The extra talent needed to boost your projects
Extend your team with our software engineering experts, our professionals will integrate into your existing team, work with your existing processes, attend your regular project meetings and report to your in house managers. We take care of recruiting, payroll, insurance, wellness, retention and overall management so you can focus on your business goals.
What is IT Staff Augmentation
IT Staff augmentation adds the talent you need to boost your projects.
IT Staff augmentation is a service designed to scale your existing team by adding extra talent with critical knowledge and skills so that your current project goals and timelines can be met. IT staff augmentation focuses on those hard to fill or temporary roles which allows to boost your team performance and productivity and deliver your projects successfully.
Currently companies all over the world use staff augmentation to scale their teams performance and results and being able to compete more efficiently in today’s fast-paced markets.
How does it work?
1. Identifying your talent needs
2. Selection process
3. Job offer and hiring
4. Managing for success
Key Benefits
Top talent that boosts your team’s performance and productivity
100% Focused on your bottom line. Optimized ROI.
Keep Oversight and Control. Staff adheres to your processes.
Increased retention which avoids extra costs.
Flexibility, you only pay for what you need, scale up or down at any time.
Main Pros and Cons of IT Staffing
Even though IT staffing services have many benefits it may also have a few cons
Pros
- Boosting your team productivity
- Easily hiring top talent
- Filling knowledge or skills gaps
- Easily scaling up or down your team
- Maintaining control over important business and technical decisions
Cons
- Projects that require too much business context may cause longer learning curves for new team members.
- Flaws in internal processes may diminish the perceived value of staffing services.
- If not conveyed properly staff may not fully understand your vision and what you’re aiming for.
Getting started with IT Staff Augmentation services
Working with the right partner
When choosing an IT staffing partner it’s very important to consider not only the ability to hire top talent but also the company culture which goes beyond what’s stated in the business website and actually shapes the talent overall experience and determines happiness, performance and continuity which is critical for projects effectiveness, successful completion and costs reduction in the long run.
Choosing an outsourcing model that fits your needs
It’s important to evaluate your current capabilities, maturity, internal staff experience and availability to determine if just extending to some degree your existing team will provide you with all the knowledge and skills required to achieve your goals or you actually require to build a new team that takes care of all the product development and project management work.
Sharing your vision, needs and expectations
Once you have your team complete and ready to take over, it is critical that you convey your vision and goals so that the team can take ownership of that vision and commit to do whatever it takes to help you achieve them.
Establishing communication and feedback cycles
Keeping regular communication with your team it’s critical for the planning and execution of your project and so is to have regular management follow up events to make sure everything is on track, all your expectations are met and provide valuable feedback in both directions to make sure any deviations are avoided.
Establishing a post-implementation maintenance plan
After the product implementation, your IT Staffing partner should help you create a transition plan where your in-house team will take over and keep everything on point once the development project is complete.
The difference between Staff Augmentation
and Dedicated Teams
Staff Augmentation
Staff augmentation extends your existing team by adding highly skilled IT professionals on an on-demand basis by sizing up your team to achieve the required capacity and velocity for your project, closing any knowledge or skills gaps and allowing you to scale up or down based on your business needs.
Dedicated Teams
With dedicated teams you usually get a new team composed of a project manager, software engineers, QA analyst and designer who are able to develop and deliver a new software product from scratch or maintain and improve an existing one.
The management of the work is usually performed collaboratively by a Scalant Scrum master/engineering manager and a product manager/product owner from your in-house team who will make sure that all of the work being tackled maximises your ROI.
What to look for in your software development partner
Many business and technical challenges require highly talented and seasoned professionals to succeed, make sure you work with a high standards partner.
There are services offered by companies in other parts of the world that don’t necessarily fit US companies dynamics. This has proven to become a real obstacle and provoke a lack of effectiveness since IT staffing services require very high levels of communication and collaboration in order to succeed.
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Dedicated Teams
With dedicated teams you usually get a new team composed of a project manager, software engineers, QA analyst and UX/UI designer who are able to develop and deliver a new software product from scratch or maintain and improve an existing one.
The management of the work is usually performed collaboratively by a Scalant Scrum master/engineering manager and a product manager/product owner from your team who will make sure that all of the work being tackled is for the highest value you can get so that ROI is maximized.
