IT Staff Augmentation

THE VISION

As a Head of Development, you want to make sure that the team accurately delivers the required solution, within the agreed timescale, velocity and cost.

As a Chief Technology Officer, you would like to build an environment where all technical delivery functions are balanced, competent and work collaboratively, between in-house and outsourced resources. You want to balance the scale of engineering pools between permanent staff and those needed, in the short term, to deliver specific projects, innovation or strategic goals.

As a Product Owner, you expect the delivery team to highlight which competencies need to be developed, augmented or introduced, so you can advocate for the necessary funding to improve team skillsets, morale and productivity.

THE CHALLENGE

As a leader who is responsible for iterative delivery of technology products, you have probably been in a situation when all teams depend on a single DevOps engineer to push that next release or service pack to production.

Perhaps you have also experienced the impossible dilemma of allocating your two experienced data scientists between six projects? Knowing that each of these projects are of a similar priority and each competes for these engineers’ time and contribution. You have probably experienced the ‘Lose/Lose’ situation, knowing that four of the six projects could or will inevitably be delayed, putting an entire roadmap at risk.

Maybe coverage of automated tests remains well below your target, because Test Automation Engineer vacancy has still not been filled, after four months, to the frustration of developers and overload of the manual QA team?

In addition to addressing recruitment challenges, it's imperative to assess and optimize HR processes to ensure smooth team dynamics. This includes streamlining onboarding procedures to expedite the integration of new team members and implementing agile feedback mechanisms to promptly address any issues hindering productivity.

Finally, maybe your knowledgeable and expensive senior developers are constantly diverted to resolve minor support issues, taking them away from delivering critical and strategic project work.

THE RISKS

While you want to hire and retain key people, who become the focal point of building and sustaining the expertise you need, this route is not without risk. For example:

The most experienced engineers are not necessarily the most skilled or appropriate leaders, when it comes to scaling and competency growth.
It may not be possible to find or recruit the right resources, at the pace you need. In line with your scalability or growth requirements. This could be because of the competition for talent on your local market, perhaps also lengthy notice periods before joining you or because you must compete for priority and availability from your in-house recruitment function, to get interviews and offer letters actioned.
Changes in business direction, strategy or priorities, even financial constraints becoming apparent mid-way through a recruitment cycle, can also have impact.

COMPUTOOLS OFFER

We can offer you reliable, long-term support in scaling your skills and expertise, all whilst maintaining flexibility. Introducing our concept of the augmented team, in response to your needs and priorities. The Computools difference is threefold:

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Our experience in building and maintaining team extension arrangements for similarly ambitious and evolving businesses, to help them deliver what is strategically and operationally critical to them.

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Our ability to bring together a group of skilled experts, capable of working (alongside your own team members) on a variety of technologies, tools, methodologies and automation processes. A team who can ultimately contribute knowledge and skills to add to your own organisational expertise.

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Our capability to build scalable competency groups or centres of excellence within your organisation. This is at the heart of how we, at Computools, are at the forefront of technological knowledge. Our ethos is to constantly encourage growth, increasing knowledge and experience and sharing expertise among our customers and colleagues.

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Our team at Computools excels in rapidly augmenting specialized expertise. We can swiftly onboard additional specialists to bolster your existing team, ensuring a seamless integration of skills and resources. The approach combines the best of both worlds, offering the option to integrate our experts alongside your in-house talent for a synergistic collaboration.

We are happy to share this experience with you via our IT Staff Augmentation offering, which can be tailored to your needs and scale. Here are some of the examples: