Augmentation Services

What Is Staff Augmentation?

In staff augmentation, a company hires the people it needs on a short-term basis for a specific project. In other words, it is the process of building an external team to support your in-house workforce. Through staff augmentation, businesses are able to increase output without incurring the costs of hiring full-time employees. Furthermore ,it allows your employees to focus on core company functions while the hired team handles the rest.

If you want to implement the staff augmentation strategy in your organisation, you will normally contact a staff augmentation company, which provides you with a skilled team to work with. The number of employees you hire and the duration of their employment will be determined by your needs.

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Expenses

Staff augmentation can save a company money. Only the expense of engaging the staff for a limited period is required of the company. By using staff augmentation, you won't have to spend money on staff training and seminars since the hired crew already has the experience needed. 

Cohesiveness

In deciding whether to use staff augmentation, it is also important to consider the cohesiveness of the team.Adding new employees from another company will require them to acclimate to your company's working standards and rules. Make sure this process is integrated into your employee onboarding process from the beginning to make sure it runs smoothly.

Control

A dedicated staff augmentation team will work under your project managers, enabling you to stay on top of the most important aspects of the project. You can rest assured that your project will be completed on time since it will be completed on your property and on your terms. In the same way, you must ensure that the staff you hire commits100 percent of their time to your project. 

The benefits of Augmentation

·      Costs for development are lower 

·      An easier engagement process 

·      Costs of operation are lower 

·      An easier legal process

·      Specialised specialists are accessible 

·      A greater output and a bigger team

·      Provides flexibility

Staff augmentation vs project outsourcing, both are quite different. With the latter, the company is sending tasks outside to be fulfilled by third parties. For staff augmentation, the company brings people in, on a temporary basis, to work on specific tasks.

However, staff augmentation vendors simply provide talents to handle parts of your project directly. The main difference is in the management process: an outsourcing vendor creates milestones and manages the whole process by himself but a staff augmentation vendor just provides some developers and your technical leader should manage them

There are some important aspects of this augmentation model. 

• Protecting your intellectual property is  essential. The agreement you sign with a staff outsourcing company must include a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). It's imperative to ensure your remote developers don't misuse the confidential information they get access to as full-time employees.
• Your outsourcing company remains your remote developers' official employer. Despite the fact that they work for your company and become members of your team, the outsourcing company is their official employer. Therefore, defining the responsibilities of each party in the contract and defining the working conditions is important.
• Streamlined monthly fee structure. It would be ideal if the outsourcing company charged a flat monthly fee for each developer it provided. Fees should include both the actual salary and the  company's fee for providing the service. The terms of such payments are fair and transparent.

The use of IT staff augmentation has numerous benefits for companies when done correctly. Using IT staff augmentation services will result in lower development and operational costs, less legal responsibilities, less recruitment headaches, increased output and team size, and more flexibility. Request a free consultation with Seers Digital.

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