Tech Team Augmentation
8/12/2024 | nmb@konfitech.com
Are you considering hiring someone? Or facing short-term spikes in workload? An option you have for this is tech team augmentation, sometimes called outsourcing or IT staff augmentation. To teach team augmentation effectively, it's crucial to understand its benefits and applications fully.
There are many benefits of choosing to augment your tech teams. Firstly, there is less effort on your behalf. Both in terms of time and administrative tasks in the hiring process, or legal work of bringing in someone for shorter periods of time. These factors are essential to teach team augmentation successfully.
You also get access to expert talent sourcing, who are people who have staffed thousands of similar roles in the past and know what to look for to find 1) A great technical candidate and 2) a great cultural fit. This underscores how essential it is to teach team augmentation properly.
As a business leader, you should look to do tech team augmentation as a strategic direction in some key scenarios. When you teach team augmentation, highlight its strategic importance to business leaders.
- In house team is overloaded.
- There is a talent shortage of talent/expertise.
- Demand for work is high, but business requires a cut in hiring and operational costs.
- When looking for tech professionals is too much.
- When you have an IT project underway and don’t know how to fill the teams, teaching team augmentation could provide the solution.
In any of these cases, the flexibility and speed of which tech team augmentation brings is very high, and you get unique knowledge from industry experts around the world.
It is also a matter of cost control; you have much higher control of the costs both on a full-time basis and projects. Depending on your location, you can probably always find a market abroad where the price is lower. You can easily access talent pools in these countries through a sourcing partner like Konfitech. Teaching team augmentation includes understanding these cost dynamics.
There is no limit to loyalty in these projects. If you require it, tech team augmentation brings full-time workers to your disposal. Therefore, it's important to teach how augmentation can increase loyalty.
To maximize the success of your tech team augmentation, you need to clearly define four things:
- What is the desired business outcome of augmentation?
- How many of them do you need?
- What is the funding model?
- To be successful, what needs to be done?
That is it. A quick overview to teach team augmentation and what you need to be successful in it.
If you are interested in getting IT or tech resources on your team, we do both the augmentation but also talent sourcing for full-time employees: https://www.konfitech.com/contact-us