Are you wondering how IT staff augmentation works? Do you want to know what staff augmentation can do for you and your business?
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Are you wondering how IT staff augmentation works? Do you want to know what staff augmentation can do for you and your business?
Scroll down to learn all that and more. 🚀
If you run a business in the IT industry you may have come across some of the following problems:
The lack of appropriate IT talent and software developers that can work on projects and be apart of your team, can cause problems such as:
These aspects lead to huge financial losses for your company and damage your reputation along with credibility.
However, don’t you worry, because you can solve all these problems with staff augmentation.
IT employee augmentation is a model that connects highly skilled developers with IT companies that needs a specific type of talent on a project requirement basis rather than permanent employment. Staff amplification has become the buzzword in technology industries that has helped IT businesses grow.
The object of staff augmentation is to improve the efficiency of the company’s IT team. This can be achieved by hiring developers:
Moreover, you have the flexibility to add developers and end the cooperation when your project has come to a close.
This solution is an exciting model for startups, SaaS companies, Software Houses and so much more. You can scale your team of developers by adding temporary workers to your existing staff.
Ensure you have the following things in place in order to use staff augmentation services.
Staff augmentation model is best when you have an in-house team that needs additional talent to fulfil project requirements. The IT staffing vendor can provide you with a developer to join your existing team that already include Programmers, QA Testers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters and Project Managers.
If you do not have an in-house team, you may want to consider a different solution such as outsourcing.
Staff augmentation firms are happy to provide you with the IT talent that you are missing for your software development project, but firstly, you need to let them know what type of developers you are missing. Are you missing Front-End Developers? Back-End Developers? Mobile Developers?
Also, let provide them with information, in regards to what technology stack you need to complete your project. Lastly, let them know how many developers you need to fill out your development team.
Before, taking on developers using team augmentation it would be nice for your company to have in-house procedures, processes and a workflow in place. These elements will the make onboarding any additional developers you hired a lot easier.
As a part of the onboarding process you may consider introducing new programmers to:
Moreover, take a few minutes to show new developers any software tools that are specific to your team such as Slack, Jira, Zoom, Teams etc.
When you use a staff augmentation company to hire additional software developers the process may look a little something like ours. Check out this 8-step guide we use in Swyply below.
The first thing you need to do, is provide the staff augmentation vendor the type of software developers that you require for your project. Also, during this step let them know if you only need one programmer or how many additional coders you need to hire along with any other valuable project details.
The staff augmentation company will search for software engineers based on the skill set that you need to match your project requirements.
Once the team augmentation firm finds appropriate candidates, they will provide you a short list of developers that might be the right fit. For each software engineer, you should receive a Blind CV. On these Blind CVs you will find information such as education, experience, programming languages and projects they worked on. Using these Blind CV’s you will pick suitable developers you would like to interview.
Based on the individuals you choose, the staff augmentation company will plan interviews for you to meet candidates via video chat. During this time you can also request for developers to do code tests.
At this stage, you get to pick the software engineers that you would like to hire. Once you have choose the right coders for you, you will sign a contract. In this contract, you will have information such as cooperation start date, project duration, the daily or monthly rate and the date of completion.
During this stage, software developers work with your team on your task. The IT talent is accessible to you as long as you need. Moreover, they are exclusively available to you and your team.
Typically, the staff augmentation vendor will reach out to you periodically to check in. They will want to ensure that your cooperation is heading in the right direction. During this time, they may also enquire whether you have other project requirement needs such as additional developers.
Towards the end of your cooperation, the company will probably reach out you and see if your project has come to a close or if you need to extend your cooperation.
Working with Swyply gives you the opportunity to pick a remote developer or an entire team of software developers with a two-week trial period.
During this trial period, if, for whatever reason, our tech talent, is not the right fit, you have two options.
We try to ensure that any additional team member will be the right fit for your existing in house software development team. We provide ongoing support by doing monthly check-ins to check our cooperation is heading in the right direction. Moreover, we enquire whether you need additional software engineers or a change in developers, this includes hiring a programmer with a different tech stack.
Here are some answers to your most frequently asked questions about the staff augmentation process:
Learn MoreSo depending on the staff augmentation firm they can have a developer ready to go and join your team within one week. However, in some scenarios it may take up to 30 days, but these are extreme circumstances where developers need to finish up previous projects.
This will vary company to company, but most companies will establish a daily rate for your chosen developer. At the end of each month, they would add up the number of days that a developer spends working on your project. Based on these calculations, they would send an invoice out at the end of the month. They will give you either a 7 day or 14 day payment deadline.
Learn more about the price of staff augmentation
Generally, there is not limit on how many developers a staff augmentation vendor can provide you. They can provide you with as many or as little developers as you need.
Yes, many companies give you the option to hire programmers on a part-time basis. Here at Swyply, we find it’s best to hire out developers on a full time basis. However, if you find that you need ongoing developer support month after month for let’s say 20 hours per month, we can do our best to help you.
I cannot speak more highly of the Swyply developers. They have been incredible in how fast they delivered extremely high-quality code, with little to no need for QA. Not only did they deliver on everything that we had spec’ed out, but they also implemented significant improvements on their own. Cannot recommend them enough!
Dan PilatCo-Founder at The Decision Lab
Swyply developers are great to work with, reliable, effective, and high quality. Their communication and responsiveness are excellent and we’ve really valued working with them. Highly recommended!
Gordon McLachlanManaging Director of Primate
Swyply developers have always been a pleasure to work with. They listen carefully to the project requirements, but also offer invaluable feedback and suggestions. I found Swyply efficient, reliable and professional.
Jowita EmbertonCEO & Founder at Brandpa
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