The Benefits of Having an Extended Development Team and Resource Augmentation

The Benefits of Having an Extended Development Team

1. You save time on hiring while staying in control

Does the thought of going through the whole of recruitment, training, and onboarding process full-time engineers fill you up with joy? I can imagine it doesn’t.

An extended development team offers a quicker and more streamlined alternative. You get to assemble your dedicated development team and have it up and running in no time. This means all the project management takes place in-house, you are always on top of the product development.

2. Cost-effectiveness

One of the key advantages of extended software teams is that they are budget-friendly.

What’s even better is that the lower cost does not come at the expense of quality. You can have your pick from an international pool of top-level engineers who have been thoroughly vetted and come with a proven track record of delivering excellent results.

3. Increased transparency, trust, and collaboration

Direct communication, transparency, and trust are integral parts of any successful long-term collaboration and that’s exactly what you get with staff augmentation throughout the project.

The extended development team works closely with your core staff, you can benefit from:

• Ongoing and effective communication

• Total transparency around the work being done

• Shared responsibility for the deliverables

• Increased productivity

Furthermore, the two teams that you build can complement each other’s skills and exchange knowledge, ideas, and problem-solving techniques. Tis means at the end of the project you are getting the best possible solution.

4. No setup or operational hassle

Compared to standard recruitment, the extended development team model requires little to no operational hassle. Which will save you time and money.

With most of the work being done remotely, you don’t have to worry about:

• Payroll and employee benefits

• Buying equipment

• Setting up physical workstations

• Renting and maintaining an office space

• Enabling a home-office setup

• Looking after tech support

Everything is already ready to go!

The only thing you need to do is assemble the remote team and ensure they have access to the software and information systems they will need to do their work.

5. Faster time to market

In addition to saving a substantial amount of time on recruitment and setup, you also get to speed things up by having additional resources work on the same project simultaneously. By sharing and distributing tasks among themselves, your engineers will get more work done in less time.

One of the major benefits of having an extended development team is that your remote engineers will not be juggling a handful of different projects, which is often the case with outsourcing. As a result, the team will be dedicated to and fully invested in your project — and they will get things done quickly and efficiently.

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