What are the benefits of staff augmentation?
Money stays in your pocket
We mentioned earlier that IT staff augmentation is one of the best ways to expand your team without facing serious financial investments.
Scaling up is possible with software augmentation, as it significantly cuts off software development expenses. Examples include no monthly fixed salaries, expenditure on recruitment, in-house employee treatments, taxes, space, and equipment for in-house employees.
Access to global IT talent pool
Remote work does not have borders. You can hire talents across the globe. IT staff augmentation allows you to expand your tech team without taking risks. Working with software outsourcing companies ensures safe and reliable remote partnership opportunities.
Less pressure on your current in-house team
When a company does not have enough resources to hire new employees, it has no choice but to add up the responsibilities of the current employees. As a result, employee satisfaction drops with high-stress levels. Software staff augmentation makes team expansion possible even with restricted finances.
Opportunity for brainstorming and 3rd party opinions
Working with a software outsourcing company and their software developers, engineers, and other IT specialists from different parts of the world means exploring new possibilities. You will have a chance to adopt an "international" approach to your business by simply cooperating with companies from different countries and regions. New ideas are born, preparing a solid base for innovations in your country.
No geographical limitations (flexible working hours)
Hiring employees to work non-working hours doubles the salary. With restricted finances, you can search for software vendors operating in the appropriate time zone and avoid paying additional money for non-working hours.
Opportunity to become more agile in your business
It is much easier to scale an augmented team according to the evolution of your business requirements.
How does the staff augmentation process work?
IT staff augmentation is one of the software outsourcing engagement models. Despite many similarities, each software outsourcing model has specific features that make them unique and define them as separate models. The processes are one of the major verifications in software outsourcing engagement models. The software augmentation process also differs from other engagement models. Here is how a typical, full-cycle IT staff augmentation model works.
Software augmentation stage 1:
Identify and define your suggested conditions and task requirements
In software development outsourcing, it is critical to clarify your goals, requirements, and expectations of the cooperation. No matter which software development engagement model you choose, the company's initial goals should be clear.
Unlike the fixed-price software development engagement model, both the staff augmentation and time and material software outsourcing models are much more flexible. Usually, the latter 2 models adopt Agile software development methodology, which is famous exactly for its flexibility and ability to change plans. However, IT staff augmentation may also be based on a fixed rate and budget, which requires crystal-clear tech documentation.
In any case, to start something, you should be able to explain your goals and requirements to your potential software vendor. Clarifying your technical requirements is also critical for the two parties (the software vendor and the client), as it makes it much easier to choose the corresponding professionals from the team. At CodeRiders, we created a practical guide to writing SOW documents easily and rapidly. We also give a sample of it. You can download the guide and its sample here.
