Scale your team capacity with IT Staff Augmentation Services

To find an augmented staff that will help you close the skill gap, go through:

• B2B portals like Clutch
• Freelance platforms like Upwork
• GitHub or StackOverflow
• Staff augmentation providers like Relevant

Our talented pool of professionals can turn your company’s sketches into stunning software, high-functioning applications, or whatever deliverable you have in mind. Relevant specialists operate on your timetable to deliver the products you need to launch your company at a higher level. All the services we provide may be maintained with the staff augmentation model:

• App & web development
• Frontend & backend development
• Digital design
• DevOps
• Cybersecurity
• Quality assurance and more

With the staff augmentation model, you hire additional IT resources with direct control over your team. Thus, you minimize the risks of a possible negative outcome. Under the outsourcing model, you outsource the entire project to an outsourcing provider, increasing risk and reducing control.

It is a type of outsourcing service commonly used for IT projects. The staff augmentation model allows you to hire specialists to fill in the gaps in your internal team. You can manage them directly and determine how long you will use their services.

Basically, IT Staff Augmentation costs vary based on the skill required, location of the vendor, and term of the contract. Contact us for additional details and an estimate of the Staff Augmentation services we provide.

The Staff Augmentation model works if you:

• you have a limited budget and want to save money
• your need more employees for the time being to complete the work
• you suffer from high staff turnover, which prevents sustainable growth
• your want to extend the team of in-house engineers working on the project
• you launching a new project, and extra staff is needed
• your project requires specialized skills and knowledge
• you need to test the product before release
• you want to outsource your project, but at the same time, you want to have control

In general, the process of finding the right IT staff augmentation company can be narrowed down to the next steps:

1. Determine what you are lacking - be it a specifics skills or several people
   Indicate if you are interested in long-term or short-term cooperation
2. Study the market - choose the trustworthy outsourcing company, for example, Relevant
3. Check vendor portfolio, social media, and company blog
4. Call, agree on a price, and discuss the details of the contract
5. Sign a contract and enjoy cooperation

Be sure to choose your outsourcing company wisely. Avoid “budget” IT staff augmentation companies, and read any agreements carefully before signing.

Both methods of IT outsourcing help you avoid spending time and effort on recruiting the talents to develop your projects and reach your company’s ultimate goals.

The managed services model outsources the entire problem and solution to a third-party vendor (output). But staff augmentation is a tool to outsource specific tasks and functions (input). Staff augmentation’s key benefit is that you can rapidly scale particular functions, while managed services are best for the long-term handling of processes like infrastructure and security.

To better understand what you need, we ask the following questions:

• What software product are you developing?
• How many specialists are already involved in the process?
• What specific skills or experience do you require?
• How many people do you need to scale up?
• What level of seniority should they have?
• Do you need a project manager?

The onboarding process may seem daunting, but it sets the stage for a successful and fruitful collaboration between the client, in-house team, and augmented staff. Here's what you need to do to make the onboarding run smoothly:

• Describe the business context
  Explain your strategy and vision, goals and competitors, market and users, and strengths and weaknesses. Understanding the business context before starting development ensures that the new specialists you hire will be more efficient and always on track with your company's goals.
• Prepare an internal team
  Even if your internal team understands the need to hire an augmented staff, there may be tension or rivalry. Explain to the in-house team that no one doubts an augmented team is not replacing their competence.
• Share all the necessary project documentation
  Your augmented staff should access all the resources they need to get started. The most important are the technical documentation, the backlog, and the code repository.

Some clients may fear using staff augmentation services due to in-house team member anxiety. It is important to remind full-time employees that staff added via the augmentation process are an extension of the current staff. These experienced hires are not meant to replace full-time employees.

Our IT Staff Augmentation company uses Jira Software to track tasks and project development progress.

Yes, they are. At Relevant, we use Agile Scrum and Kanban.

As a staff augmentation provider, we can offer you any software developers you need.

Working with a dedicated team is not something only small businesses and startups do. Many well-known companies use this model of cooperation. Among them are Slack, Zapier, GitLab, and many others.