Recent research reveals that software companies should focus on building and improving specific components of the business in order to ensure success and continued competition:
According to Statista, annual global spending on enterprise software is estimated to be $755 billion USD dollars, with global consumer spending in mobile apps estimated to be $33 billion USD. For a business that develops and sells software products and services, this potential presents an exciting opportunity, but that potential can also be daunting.
If you are considering engaging an offshore IT consulting partner, you will want to carefully assess the experience of the service provider and ensure that the business model, methodologies and skills of the business and the team are what you need to achieve a successful outcome.
If your business is ready to engage an IT Staff Augmentation Partner, you have already decided you need and want help. Whether your enterprise wants support for a one-time software application development project, ongoing support for enterprise systems or trained expertise in a particular technology environment, you want to be sure you get the right resources, the right knowledge and the right support! In this article, we outline three questions to ask a prospective IT staff augmentation partner.
If your business needs help with technology, it may be because your IT team is too busy to take on a one-time project or it may be that your team does not have the specific skills required to complete the project you have conceived. Perhaps your business is just getting started and does not yet have the IT team it needs to do the work. Maybe yours is a software business that needs a partner to help develop a software product for market or to add functionality and services for existing clients. In short, there are many reasons, a business might reach out for help.
There are many reasons to engage an IT consultant and employ IT staff augmentation and there are many benefits when it is done right. Businesses can quickly scale up and down to accommodate a project or meet a need. They can engage talent with specific skills and training to meet the requirements of their current and future business landscape. The business can mitigate the cost of training to keep IT skills current, and ensure staffing flexibility to fill in the gaps in a project team or for ongoing support, and it can accommodate its budget with the right experience, training and skills at an affordable cost. In this article, we discuss four areas of caution and attention your business must consider before engaging a partner for IT staff augmentation.
As an in-house IT manager, a CIO, a CTO or a business professional, you may already have grasped the critical need for additional help on an IT project – whether it is ongoing assistance or help for a standalone project. You see the full picture. You know your IT team is overwhelmed, you know their skill set and you know you can’t get the job done with the existing knowledge and resources you have. You also understand the importance of getting that job done quickly and effectively.
When a business has more IT projects and initiatives than it can handle, it will often look to hire more internal IT staff members. But hiring takes time, interviewing is imperfect and part time or full time employees require management, benefits and office space. While a business might need one-time project support, or ongoing support for development, maintenance and support, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to staffing. In addition to these issues, there is the very real issue of ongoing training and skills enhancement. That costs money and, when a team member is out for training, someone else must cover for that team member. So, what is a business to do?
Don’t Give Up On Your Business Goals: Staff Augmentation Can Help
If you don’t have an IT team for your business, or if you have a team but they are always swamped, you are likely to be frustrated by the fact that you can’t plan any new projects, whether they are for infrastructure, software for business, support and maintenance, integration of software solutions, analytics initiatives or Software Product Development.
If your business has ongoing IT projects or support needs, or you are considering a development project for a software product or software application, mobile application, maintenance and support or any other technical project, you may not have the IT resources or skills to get it all done while still attending to your daily issues.
