Staff augmentation is another word for extending your team with talent from a different company. This post is going to summarise the advantages and disadvantages of using this service for your company.
- Hire someone who is a good team player
One of the main advantages of extending a team using staff augmentation is bringing technical knowledge and experience that your team doesn’t have in order to accelerate the development of your project. For that to happen sucessfully you need someone who is willing to transfer knowledge and help you internal stuff become better.
- Hire teams with a project manager:
In some cases hiring just one person is not enough to make an stalled project move forward, in some cases you need a team. For those cases our recommended configuration would be: One senior/lead engineer with two or more junior members. In some cases adding a project manager to the team would improve the performance by removing the everyday roadblocks.
- Test the knowledge of the candidate:
It’s always better to test any candidate you want to hire. Have a senior member of the team interview the candidate and ask some technical questions. We can help you do technical interviews if you need.
- Make some time to answer questions:
Plan some time in your calendar to answer the questions from the team. Sometimes the project gets stalled because the product owner is not available to make decisions about the product. Keep in mind that there are some questions the developers can’t solve by themselves because they require business specific knowledge they don’t have
If you’re thinking about extending your team, contact us. Our experts can give you some advice and pointers even if you want to hire talent from another company.