Staff Augmentation — The When and the How?

Wouldn’t it be great if you could hire a set of experts whenever you want — either to augment your output, or to bring in their expertise and insights into your operations and products.

Well, that is what staff augmentation offers.

With Staff augmentation you can maintain project control by hiring a temporary team, and distributing work as and when needed.

That means

• Hiring experts when you’re rolling out a product
• Hiring experience developers when you’re building an MVP
• Hiring developers when you want code maintenance while your in-house team works on the main product
• Hiring developers when you’re bringing out a new feature

Easy. Flexible. And Precise.

Factors that play a big role when you’re a CTO or a CEO managing a product or a software project.

In the short blog, we’ve covered five scenarios to see when it’s the ideal time to add more people to your team;

When You Need to Scale Your Team Quickly

Your tech team may not be able to keep up with the workload at times. That’s because your project/business may be experiencing rapid growth, requiring you to fulfill the expectations of new clients or handle complex tasks that are filling your backlog. This is where staff augmentation adds highly trained and experienced experts to your team, allowing you to ramp up your development efforts quickly.

When Specific Skill Sets Aren’t Available

Artificial intelligence, blockchain, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things are just a few examples of technologies that demand specialised expertise and experience. It’s also difficult to find an expert with the requisite skills on the spot.

In these cases staff augmentation is really effective. Outsourcing firms are solely focused on locating the best talent available, especially developers with unusual or uncommon skills.

When You Have to Cut Costs

Hiring local talent can often become too expensive. To outbid other companies wanting to employ the same talent, you must spend a lot of time and effort selecting the appropriate people, offer very competitive salaries, and invest even more money. Because of the cost savings associated with staff augmentation, it’s not surprising that many organizations outsource their talent needs.

When You Want to Be More Creative

When a development team has been working together for a while, everyone starts to think the same way. This can be quite beneficial, but it can also harm your ability to innovate. How? When developers approach projects from the same perspective, they risk overlooking alternate avenues that could lead to more innovative and superior solutions.

You can bring fresh ideas and new ways of doing things to an established team by using staff augmentation to add new engineers to it.