Are you struggling to pick between staff augmentation and outsourcing?
Find out the scenarios and benefits for each. Pick the option that is best suitable for your business!
Are you struggling to pick between staff augmentation and outsourcing?
Find out the scenarios and benefits for each. Pick the option that is best suitable for your business!
Staff augmentation is the practice of filling in gaps in a team’s expertise with additional members. This can be done by hiring temporary workers, or it can be done by contracting out certain tasks to external vendors. To be clear, this is not outsourcing.
The term “outsourcing” has become overused and is often used to refer to any kind of contract for services. There is a big difference between staff augmentation and outsourcing. Let us explain:
Staff augmentation, sometimes referred to as “hiring in-house” is when you bring someone on board to help your existing team. Moreover, bringing in new employees will fill in gaps that are present in your team. These can be team knowledge gaps, skill set gaps, or even experience.
Outsourcing is when you allow an organization to manage certain aspects of your business internally, without involving your resources. Business process outsourcing, is giving a specific aspect of your business to handle and manage.
This can be managing aspects such as:
Both approaches have their pros and cons, but if you want to keep your core team intact while you ramp up your business, it’s probably best to stick with staff augmentation.
Here are the top three scenarios in which you should choose the staff augmentation model:
When you see a need to manage, organize and control talent along with resources used during the project, staff augmentation services is a great solution.
When you have in house developers that can do a chunk of the work but are missing some skills. We can provide you with a developer or developers that can fill that talent gap.
When you want to deliver a product or service quicker to market to increase your revenue. Adding additional working hands to your team will help you complete projects faster and therefore, increase your revenue.
Here are some scenarios where taking advantage of an outsourcing company may make sense for your business:
When you need the project done from start to finish. You don’t have time to manage, delegate etc. the tasks. You want to be able to focus on core business goals, as opposed to this one project.
If you do not have an in house team of skilled specialists such as Developers, Project Managers, QA Engineers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, etc. Then staff augmentation model may not be the solution for you. You do not have enough existing staff to help the augmented team complete the project.
In the outsourcing of work, the company offers a fixed price to a variable cost service. You are able to better budget and only spend a certain amount of money on your project. This can help you to spend more money on different areas in your business, as opposed to fixating on one project.
Here are some pros and cons of choosing staff augmentation services:
Here are some advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing:
Here is how our staff augmentation services process looks like:
Determine what IT skills you are missing in your current team. Once you have these details, reach out to us with that type of IT developer you need. Moreover, you can provide us with more project details, scope of work and any other specifications that may be vital to find the perfect Developers for your team.
Once we know what skill set you need, we will search for individuals within our in house team. We can also look for IT candidates for you from our 50+ partnering Software Houses, to ensure we find the right candidates.
When we narrowed down suitable candidates, we will provide you with Blind CVs for each one. This way you get to know each of them in terms of tech stack, career path up to this point and future aspiration. Moreover, you will be able to determine if their previous experience matches up with what you are looking for in an IT Developer.
Based on your choices, we will schedule video interviews for you and candidates. You will carry out interviews with the IT specialists you have selected. Moreover, you can also request for our developers to carry out code tests.
At this stage, you get to select the Swyply developers that are right for you. Then we finalize the details and sign the contract. In this contract we will have outlined the agreed upon start date, the duration of the project and date of completion.
During this phase, our Swyply developers work with your team on your project. Our developers are available to you exclusively for the duration of the contract.
Every month, we reach out to you to check in. We want to make sure that everything is up to par when it comes to our cooperation. We will ask whether you have additional needs or requirements for your software projects.
A month before the end of the cooperation resulting from the contract, we will reach out to you, to see if you want to extend our co-operation contract? Or has the project come to a close?
Here are some answers to your most asked questions about augmented services vs. outsourcing:
Learn MoreProject-based consulting would be considered the opposite of staff augmentation. Project consulting can easily be compared with augmentation. While you get the same quality developers on any projects that you desire, no department is required to participate.
We provide two-week trial periods on our remote staff augmentation services, so you can choose from a range of remote developers or an entire remote development team. If one of our IT specialists is not the right fit for you, you have two options. Firstly, we can look for another developer, if the first one is not working out, and replace him or her. Alternatively, we can finish our cooperation, and we will not charge you for that two-week period.
The rate to hire one of our developers on augmented staffing basis varies on the type of expert and seniority level. Our hourly rates range from $30 to $100 per hour. So for example, $30 per hour is for a developer that is at the junior level, whereas, $100 per hour would get you a developer who has high seniority. This would be a developer that specializes in a technology that is in high demand on the market, but is short in supply.
Learn more about the price of staff augmentation
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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.
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