Staff augmentation is an outsourcing strategy that allows a company to add staff to their available teams based on the additional skills required to attend a specific project. It is effective when you need to fill a few gaps within your existing team because it allows you to increase team capacity, avoid recruitment, and reduce operational costs by getting the right people for the challenge.
By offering highly skilled staff augmentation, we provide profiles that require advanced skills that are only attainable via significant training and experience. This is a way to boost productivity since each staff member is assigned a specific responsibility.
Outsourcing is a business practice in which a company hires a third party to perform tasks, handle operations, or provide services for the company. It is useful when your company doesn't have the capabilities to provide the services or perform specific tasks at the moment and also when the cost to build these capabilities properly takes a lot of time and/or money.
It is common for companies whose main activities are not related to technology to outsource technological services to satisfy their digital needs.
Several factors must be considered before deciding on the best product delivery model. Optimizing project time and costs and tapping into the knowledge base of a skilled IT partner to complement your in-house team will help you achieve your desired business goals.
If you have never designed/built/maintained a digital product/service, you have to make the decision if you want to invest time and money in developing these capabilities to do that in the long term or shift the responsibility to a third party that must be a key partner. If the answer is to shift the responsibility to a third party, your best alternative is outsourcing. If you want to build your own team in the long term, you have two alternatives: