Staff Augumentation

Staff augmentation is an outsourcing strategy which is used to staff a project and respond to business objectives in the work process. The technique consists of evaluating the existing staff and then determining which additional skills are required. One possible advantage of this approach is that it may leverage existing resources as well as utilize outsourced services and contract workers.

The system takes the wing as more and more companies are growing with their increasing needs. The element of staff augmentation can be visible across every department to achieve competence and unmatched standard of working. Normally, it is seen that human resources and sales wings of a corporation are likely to be the first to receive the benefits of staff augmentation. However, the necessity of this process cannot be denied in other areas of business as well as staff augmentation could lead to better management for the organization.

The goal of the exercise is to handle staffing requirements with an existing set of talent. Numerous consulting companies offer staff augmentation services. It has been estimated that staff augmentation as an industry will reach $94 billion in 2015

The trend in staff augmentation is occurring because of the abundance of IT resources, declining rates, and narrowing margins for companies that need these services. Staff augmentation seems to be an extension of the "rightsizing" movement

Today many offshore software companies prefer IT staffing services to achieve competency and qualified human resources to match standard of working.

The need for dedicated developers, competent staff, skilled Indian programmers, adequate human resource, competitive pricing, considerable marginal profit, additional staff, efficiency in work process, manpower to work with subsidiary task and human resource management to improve the working standards of the staff urges OSD companies to go for IT staff augmentation.

IT Professionals who are hired in large number through IT staff augmentation are

1. ERP Professionals
2. CRM Professionals
3. Open Source Developers
4. Ruby on Rails developers
5. CMS developers
6. Share-point programmers
7. Mobile Application Development