What is team augmentation?
Team augmentation is a service where companies hire external talent to supplement their internal teams. This approach allows companies to quickly expand their workforce with skilled professionals, ensuring they have the right talent to meet project requirements without the long-term commitment of full-time hiring. It is ideal for filling skill gaps, addressing temporary increases in workload, or bringing in experts for specific projects.
When you need to grow your team, you make requirements for the employees you want to hire as contractors. Then you choose specialists for your team after a technical interview with them.
New staff will take a part in the in-house development as long as the project goes on. This approach fits best when the project might be a short-term one and has no need to hire people for a long time.
Team augmentation advantages
Team augmentation has several advantages:
- Flexibility: Team augmentation allows you to scale your workforce up or down as needed, providing the flexibility to adapt to changing project requirements or market conditions.
- Cost Efficiency: You can control costs more effectively since you only pay for the expertise and time you need, without the overhead of full-time employment.
- Access to Specialised Skills: Team augmentation gives you access to a wider talent pool, including specialists with specific skills and experiences that may not be available in your local job market.
- Reduced Administrative Burden: When you work with an augmentation partner, they handle administrative tasks like hiring, payroll, and benefits, freeing you to focus on your core business.
Available roles
There are several worker roles available to complement your team
– Project Managers: They orchestrate the project from start to finish, ensuring timelines, scope, and budget are met.
– Business Analysts: They bridge the gap between the client’s business needs and the technical team, helping to translate business requirements into technical specifications.
– UI/UX Designers: They focus on the look and feel of the software, ensuring it is functional, user-friendly, and visually appealing.
– DevOps Engineers: They ensure smooth, efficient, and continuous deployment, operation, and maintenance of the application.
– Data Scientists: If your project involves machine learning or data analysis, our data scientists can provide valuable insights and build effective models.
– Product Owners: In Agile development, they ensure that the product developed aligns with the market needs and priorities.
– Q&A: quality assurance specialists whose activities are aimed at improving the software development process, preventing defects and identifying errors in the product.
– Developers: specialists in programming, that is, the creation of computer programs. Our team has a number of developers who are engaged in web and mobile development, databases, Cloud platforms, computer-aided design.
Working process
The workflow includes the following steps:
- Identify Your Requirements. We start by analysing your current resources, technology stack and business goals to understand what additional competencies you need.
- Sign NDA. By signing the NDA contract, both parties agree not to disclose any of the information that will be shared between them.
- Search and Review. We carry out the selection of the necessary specialists based on the identified needs.
- Technical Interview. We screen candidates for suitability by conducting technical interviews with your CTO, Team Leader or any other qualified person.
- Signing contracts and onboarding. We help new team members quickly integrate into your corporate culture and workflow.
- Staff Support. Our role does not end after staffing. We continue to support you, resolve any issues that may arise, and assist with team management.
Advantages of working with our company
- Access to Specialised Talent: Our company has an extensive pool of dedicated professionals with varied skillsets and experience. You can leverage this diverse talent pool to supplement your team with specialists needed for specific tasks or projects.
- Increased Productivity: With our dedicated team working alongside yours, you can effectively increase your capacity and productivity. This enables you to deliver projects on time and to the high standard expected.
- Flexibility and Scalability: With team augmentation services, you can scale your team up or down based on your current project requirements. This ability can help you respond effectively to changing business conditions without long-term commitments.
Technologies
InStandart specialise in the following technologies:
Mobile
Web technologies
Databases
Cloud platforms
Expertise in AI, ML, LLM
Our team consists of seasoned AI, ML and LLM experts with deep industry knowledge and a passion for pushing boundaries.
Through a vetting process, we ensure that each member of our extended team has the necessary skills, experience and dedication to achieve exceptional results in the field of artificial intelligence, machine learning and LLM.
By seamlessly integrating with your existing workflows, our experts become a natural extension of your organisation, ensuring efficiency and success.
Reviews
InStandart supplements a software development company’s development capabilities. They’re helping build a web app by assisting the internal team’s testing, development, and UI/UX design processes.
InStandart has streamlined the client’s development capabilities, thanks to their timely, high-quality work. The team provides exceptional design and development expertise at a reasonable price.
Simon Crump
Director RGS IT Development
Reviews
Thanks to InStandart, we improved website performance and speed, dwell time, and user engagement. They also increased test coverage and decreased critical bugs and the bounce rate. InStandart prioritized clear communication and client collaboration and provided high-caliber talents on time.
Elvira Semiletova
Marketing Lead, Netrocket
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