Let XBlock Consulting assist your staff augmentation needs. Staff augmentation is an outsourcing strategy that is used to staff a project and respond to the business objectives. The technique consists of evaluating the existing staff and then determining which additional skills are required.
Staff augmentation is a cooperation model where a company can expand its in house staff by temporarily hiring one or several outsourcing IT specialists. These specialists will then become a part of the in-house team and cooperate with the company’s employees for a contracted amount of time.
In staff augmentation your existing team does not have the necessary specialists or experience to re-engineer a product. Hence, an outsourcing vendor plan will allow you to avoid going through the traditional recruiting process such as searching, interviewing, and onboarding. The vendor cares about your team augmentation, this means you can select the competent engineers who have worked on similar projects and sending their CVs to you. An organization can then interview and choose the experts and sign a contract if they plan on hiring them.
The resource and staff augmentation process works best for short term projects which take less than two years to finish. In case you need engineers on longer projects, it would be better to choose a dedicated team or even project based development. You can start with an augmented team, then switch to another model as your workload progresses. Most augmentation providers are always ready to negotiate such agreements.
Staff Augmentation Benefits
Resource Saving
The period to hire augmented employees is determined by the experience of the augmentation firm. With XBlock Consulting, depending on your candidate requirements, clients can typically receive candidates in 1-3 days for a specific project.
Flexibility
With team augmentation, you can hire as many experts as you need and you can scale up and down accordingly. The resource augmentation is also customizable in terms of budgeting. You can agree to a payment plan (weekly or monthly), hourly rates, and other points such as sick days or vacations.
Direct Communication
In staff augmentation, you can personally assign tasks, plan, and fully control the process through corporate project management tools. Developers will report directly to you and always be in touch.
High Productivity
In staff augmentation, the team is totally focused on your project dedicating their time and effort to it.
Growth & Adaptability
This method allows companies to expand their operations on a trial basis without committing to a full-time workforce and risking failure or investment loss. This allows you to evaluate your project on market basis and acceptance.
Affordable Prices
Staff augmentation services costs depend on hourly rates, office rent, hardware, software, training expenses. Hence, the price is typically lower than in-house development services.
How Staff Augmentation Works At XBlock Consulting
Initial Contract
To start the staff augmentation process, clients contact us to expand their in-house staff. Analysis is conducted and details are discussed such as required qualifications and candidates and what the contract may appear like.
Choosing Qualifications
When the requirements are defined, XBlock will assist with choosing the suitable specialists with the required skill set. CVs are sent to the client to consider.
Interview
After reviewing and accepting the CVs, the selected candidates go through technical interviews to check their skills. This involves 2 stages: CTO and then CEO or product owners.
Signing A Contract
Staff Augmentation Process
