How Tech Leaders Use IT Staff Augmentation to Speed Up Product Development

With Jeff Francis | Founder of ENO8

If you’re leading product development, you’ve probably hit this problem: You need to move fast, but your internal team is already at capacity.

Staff Augmentation: When and How to Deploy it Effectively

Hiring full-time engineers takes months (if you even find the right people). By the time they’re onboarded, your competitor may have already shipped their product. Or, you know you need to ramp up major software development efforts quickly, but it’s for a limited time period (think 6 to18 months).

In all of these scenarios, IT staff augmentation (or team extension, depending on your preferred term) can be a great solution to a temporary (albeit crucial) problem.

Instead of overloading your in-house team or making bad hires under pressure or burning critical time finding the right hires, you can bring in dedicated, high-quality outsourced developers who seamlessly integrate into your workflow.

Whether it’s a short-term IT project or a long-term software redesign and rebuild, the right outsourced development team can help you scale without the overhead.

Watch our episode to learn

• When to use staff augmentation vs. in-house hiring
• The biggest mistakes tech leaders make when building outsourced teams
• How to structure a team for speed, flexibility, and cost efficiency
• Real-world examples of how ENO8 helps companies extend their teams the right way

Scale Your Dev Team and Capabilities for Agility and Expertise

Staff augmentation isn’t just about adding development manpower. We commonly see software companies augment their in-house product team with highly skilled (and highly expensive) resources like solutions architects and product designers.

When building a new product or innovating an existing one, three roles are critical to success: Product visionary, technical delivery leader, and UX owner. But for the normal day-to-day IT team, it doesn’t make financial sense for most small and midsized companies to have folks in these roles.

Enter: Expert team augmentation

Through IT staff augmentation, dev teams can access the expertise they need only when they need it—without spending a huge chunk of the budget on a full-time, in-house resource.

If you’re considering an outsourced dev team or just want to avoid common pitfalls, this video is for you.