Nick Durrant | CEO | Bluegrass Digital | mail me |
Staff augmentation is fast becoming the buzzword in the app development job market, attracting more businesses to hire remotely. However, not many businesses understand the benefits of staff augmentation and the art of choosing the right model to harness global resources.
The sudden availability of an on-demand global workforce has changed the way companies recruit, staffing leaders will have to adapt quickly to the new disruptive models. With the dramatic increase in the use of contingent workers across the globe, staff augmentation has become an incredibly powerful tool in today’s business.
Recruiting and staffing have become more complex, technology driven and many businesses view this disruption as a threat. They need to understand that they cannot continue using traditional methods and keep doing things the same old way. Increased operating costs and lower productivity will certainly mean their demise, unless they change their thinking and start investing in technology.
The staffing industry is fast changing and the employment of temporary staff to augment the capacity of businesses is becoming common practice. This is especially true in the software development industry, where software development houses provide clients with two options. They could either provide a team of developers to build an app on their own or provide a team of developers that will augment the client’s team.
A model to extend your team
Team augmentation is an outsourcing strategy that is used to staff a project. This model helps extend a team by evaluating the existing staff and then determining which additional skills are required. This normally happens when the client needs help with an existing project.
It’s a flexible outsourcing strategy that enables clients to hire app developers globally and manage your augmented team directly. You are the one to choose from the candidates that fit your requirements and to cut or extend your augmented team whenever you need to.
Clients can now choose from a plethora of candidates that fit their requirements and can extend or reduce their augmented team whenever they choose to do so. They can add skilled technical resources to their in-house app development team, either on a short or long-term basis. The largest benefit is that these resources are provided and employed by the app development company, eliminating the cost and liability of permanent staff.
Managed agile project delivery
There is often a misunderstanding between staff augmentation and managed project delivery services. Whilst staff augmentation is paid for on a time and material basis, a managed project approach concerns a…
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