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Hiring top candidates for your IT projects can be a challenge, find out how Staff Augmentation can set you free.
What is Staff Augmentation?
In a recent Everest Group study, 86% of companies mention the lack of software development professionals is the biggest barrier to achieving their goals.
Recruiting in-house IT team members takes a lot of time, especially if you need senior-level professionals or rare specialists. This approach can be even more difficult if your project needs to start right away.
Staff augmentation, in the simplest term, is augmenting your team with additional professionals to ensure your project is completed on time. Generally, when companies require talent for a project and for a limited time and different skill sets, staff augmentation is an ideal option. You can find the right resource with the skills you are looking for without the hassles of a recruitment process.
This model works best for short-term projects. Imagine you want to make changes in your current custom software or you are facing difficulties to find local candidates who excel in a Java-based tool.
For example, you signed a contract for two IT professionals and ultimately, you realize that the company needs a dedicated team to this project. You then can switch the model to nearshore software development.
This is very common and it is actually a huge advantage of the staff augmentation model: flexibility to negotiate new agreements.
How Staff augmentation works
Similar to the analysis needed before deciding between an “off-the-shelf software” system and a custom software, it is important to check exactly what are your business needs and goals.
Staff augmentation can be the better option for you, if:
- Your company has an in-house team
- You need to expand the IT team fast
- You have a tech manager to who the augment team can report
- Need senior IT professionals
How Staff augmentation can boost your business
High Talent Pool
You can have professionals with the necessary skills whenever you need them and for a fixed period, which will reduce your costs considerably. This allows you to scale any project and delegate the hiring process to a staff augmentation partner. Partners typically will ramp-up and down as needed. Most companies will stand behind their talent and will allow you to do full interviewing prior to having them work with your team.
Flexibility
Bringing in new skills within your team will be of great help since they will be able to have a different perspective regarding the processes that you currently manage. This will allow your company to have the flexibility to add the necessary resource in the time and stage that requires it.
Control
Staff Augmentation provides full control of the resources added to your team, reporting directly to your supervisors, and providing the highest quality at all stages of the project. You decide when the team expands or contracts.
Attrition
Staff Augmentation allows enterprises to not get stagnated in crucial project management and delivery times. Recent statistics show, as the economy grows, up to 40% of IT employees are looking for quick job changes. Staff augmentation could be the perfect solution for both parties as companies could always be adequately staffed and professionals could put their skills and expertise to better use in a larger arena.
Cost-Savings
Hiring multiple resources for a specific project will never be profitable for your company in terms of cost-savings. All the indirect costs of hiring employees greatly increase the cost, since you not only have to cover wages but also include legal and labor benefits, which exceed the budget. This strategy allows your organization to increase its workforce for tasks without the need to incur long-term or indefinite contracts. Your digital transformatio partner should cover all burden costs.
Having a Staff Augmentation Partner is a vital part of your company. It affords you the ability to adapt, scale, and follow the requirements you need to make your business model have the necessary tools in its digital transformation process. And, not to mention that it makes the hiring process much faster.
Currently this service has a high demand in the market as companies are gradually looking for cost savings options that increase the productivity of their teams.
NTConsult is a leading Global Custom Software Development and IT Staff Augmentation Organization. We build first class solutions for your organization and we augment your team with best in the class resources. Our 20 years of working with clients throughout North and South America make us the perfect addition to fill your IT holes.
