Staff augmentation is becoming a trend in the IT job market. More businesses are hiring remotely throughout the world. A robust model for any organization’s arsenal, but few understand staff augmentation and choose the suitable model. It is like an outsourcing strategy used to add a workforce to a project to fulfil business objectives. The model consists of evaluating the regular employees. It determines which additional skills are required. Here is the perfect place to get started.

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Staff Augmentation: A Perfect Model To Scale Your Team
Wolfmatrix Marketing
April 19,2021-8 minread
Staff augmentation is becoming a trend in the IT job market. More businesses are
hiring remotely throughout the world. A robust model for any organization’s
arsenal, but few understand staff augmentation and choose the suitable model.
It is like an outsourcing strategy used to add a workforce to a project to fulfill
business objectives. The model consists of evaluating the regular employees. It
determines which additional skills are required. Here is the perfect place to get
started.
What's Inside?
How Does It Work?
WhyStaffAugmentation?
Types ofStaffAugmentation
StaffAugmentation &OtherModels
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2. How Does It Work?
In a simple sense, Staff augmentation is the way of leveraging skillsets either for a
short-term or a long-term basis to expand organizational capacity.
Why Staff Augmentation?
To increase labor and fulfill demand in everyday work.
To build a skilled working team using almost entirely flexible human
resources to gain a competitive advantage.
To add expert technical resources in the office for either short or long-term
projects on a temporary basis.
The augmentation is a perfect way of using temporary workers or contractors
instead of permanent employees to fill the skill gap for short-term or long-term
positioning.
It usually happens through the staff augmentation agency that keeps a record of
such workers. For instance, you have a big project that requires several
developers, but your in-house team lacks the required workforce. So in such a
case, you can augment a team remotely and work on such projects.
Another scenario could be an organization that takes a particular project, and the
deliverables timeline is approximately six months. But an organization lacks the
ManagedServices
Benefits ofStaffAugmentation
Are there anydrawbacks ofstaffaugmentation?
How to determine the suitable augmentation modelforyou?
Whychoose WolfMatrix to augment yourteam?
FinalThought
FrequentlyAskedQuestions About StaffAugmentation

3. skillset to work on those projects.
You could hire as permanent staff, but there will be no work after completing the
projects, and firing them could raise problems. An obvious solution is to augment
trained and qualified workers who can work collaboratively and efficiently with
your team until delivering the projects on a temporary basis.
Types of Staff Augmentation
There are generally two types of augmentation models, i.e., short-term and long-
term services.
Short-Term Services
Companies require short-term services during periods of increased demand for
employees or unavailable in-house teams for a certain period.
Long-Term Services
Types of service models that are more suitable for big projects filling a skill gap,
cutting operational costs, or not preferred in-house hiring processes.
We can further categorize the augmentation into the following three types,
namely:
Commodity
When you need reliable workers to perform tasks that don’t require a specific
skillset—for instance, factory or warehouse work, manual labor, etc.
Skill Based
You require a specific skillset (typing, spreadsheet use, multi-lingual), but the

4. relative skill level is not crucial.
Highly Skilled
You require more advanced skills that are only attainable via significant training
and experience, which is also crucial. Here specialist matters the most than the
generalist.
Staff Augmentation & Other Models
IT staff augmentation allows any organization to add employees to their teams
based on the required skillsets to support their company work process and
business objectives. The staff augmentation firm is responsible for managing the
resources.
With the IT staff augmentation model, you have the opportunity to choose
suitable candidates and manage them with the methods you desire. The
augmentation firm takes overall organizational and administrative responsibility.
At the same time, you get the opportunity to collab with your augmented team
the same way you do with your in-house team.
Managed Services
Some of the terminologies used in the IT industry frequently get mixed up. It often
leads to confusion and misunderstanding between the staff augmentation
approach and other available approaches.
Managed services allow a company to handle and execute entire projects using
the resources of another company. In some cases, another team handles the
project-specific tasks. Then the outsourcing company staff and manage the

5. team.
The project outsourcing firm takes care of all those responsibilities throughout the
development and the completion of the project. Their responsibilities include
managing resources to structuring a team to carry on all processes on their side
during the project.
Benefits of Staff Augmentation
When you have a big project residing ahead, one of the most challenging parts
you need is to worry about managing and hiring a team to work for the
projects. Choosing the right staff augmentation services allows you to scale a
team either for the long term or the short term helping on-time project delivery

6. and makes it easy to focus on your streamlined business processes.
Convenience, affordability, adaptability, and flexibility are just a few significant
reasons businesses of all sizes rely on augmented staffing to get things done.
The companies implement staff augmentation solutions for various roles in the
offices. Here are some surprising advantages of switching to the IT Staff
Augmentation Model:
Control over staff
When there is a need to manage and handle required resources, an augmented
staffing model is ideal.
Seamless Team Integration
Any organization treats added human resources as an existing team member.
Organizations often find it smooth and valuable to integrate contract resources
for streamlined business processes.
Lower employee workload
Staff augmentation reduces the burden on your existing team, which may reduce
the level of stress and work pressure. It will allow the team to concentrate the
majority of time on core business focus.
Meet aggressive project deadlines
The staff augmentation model is the right option when an active project requires
additional resources to finish on time. For instance, a specific project requires
several developers and a designer.

7. Scalability
The scalability of your organization has become even more comfortable with the
staff augmentation model. You can risk taking up projects of all nature and never
say no to your customer requirements. With Staff augmentation, you expand your
corporate team according to the on-demand services.
Moreover, the augmented staff model helps diversify services and provide quality
solutions with temporary worker’s expertise.
Employee acceptance
An augmented model can make it less threatening for internal employees and
permanent staff than an outsourcing model.
It means existing workforces have a slight risk of augmenting a few individuals
than outsourcing projects.
Cost-effective solutions
It is a pay-as-you-need model where it helps IT firms to cut expenses at various
levels. As we already mentioned, you can pay workers only for the period they
work. You don’t have to spend on recruiting and training, employee benefits,
taxes, and more as workers are selected based on their expertise in a specific
domain. It helps to cut unnecessary staff costs.
Are there any drawbacks of staff augmentation?
The staff augmentation model isn’t entirely risk-free. There are certain drawbacks
to the staff augmentation solutions. Here are some of the disadvantages
associated with and what you need to know:

8. Managerial burden
Adding human resources through staff augmentation will increase management
overhead due to the increased staff in the workplace.
Training is still required.
The company may need to provide additional training for managing resources to
speed up the company processes, tools, and ethics. Moreover, training a new
professional could lead to management overhead.
Poor cultural fit
According to a study, “A distinct workplace culture is important to business
success.” The term “culture fit” has a different meaning. Here, each employee’s
set of values, mission, and goals align with the organization’s values, mission, and
goals. There can be a compatibility issue on augmented personnel with the
existing culture and protocols of the organization.
Higher costs
This augmenting model has a potentially higher cost than other models, such as
managed services/outsourcing models. Also, it is usually best suited to shorter-
term projects compared to long-term projects.
How to determine the suitable augmentation model for you?
Staff augmentation term is more synonymous with the IT industries, but it can
help any business that requires skilled human resources to deal with short or
long-term projects.
Let me make you clear with specific scenarios when and how this can be the

9. suitable model for you:
Let’s say you already have software engineers working on one of the big
projects, but you want to scale your team to have several programmers to
develops another module of the products. Now you need to hire a group of 5-
15 tech professionals, but it’s impossible due to the shortage of your local
talent in the organization. You realize that local recruitment will take way
longer and not viable at the moment. Staff augmentation providers are the
perfect choice for such a scenario.
You are developing high-end products together with a team. But your
company is still struggling to hire the right talent, perhaps hiring some people
that did not work out. Now you intend to hire from other countries/locations.
Augmenting the workforce is a perfect solution for the given scenario.
Unlike you collaborate with a project outsourcing company to develop
products, the model doesn’t fit you. The reason is; first, you want to
communicate with your team regularly, and second, you wish to be well-
connected with your remote team to make sure they feel like part of your
organization. With the staff augmentation model, it is easier to integrate
teams either locally or throughout the country.
Why choose WolfMatrix to augment your team?

10. Whether you want to hire a single developer or an entire cross-
functional dedicated software development team, the Wolf Matrix partnership
model is flexible enough to meet your unique business needs.
Custom Recruitment
Based on your specific requirements, we select and provide you engineers from a
pool of our existing resources or new recruitments.
Predictable Monthly Cost
You pay a monthly flat fee for the developers working on your team. No hidden
costs. No extra charges.
Higher Developer Commitment
Wolfmatrix software developers are your full-time employees, and they are as
dedicated to your success as your in-house team.

11. Flexibility
Change team size with only one month’s notice.
Direct communication
You, your tech lead, or your project manager can directly communicate on a daily
basis with the dedicated development team.
Final Thought
Staff augmentation is a perfect option if you need to quickly scale your team or
add specialized skillsets to your team. A significant advantage of the Staff
Augmentation model is that it leverages existing resources and utilizes
outsourced services and contract workers. Flexibility, transparency, and cost
savings are some significant benefits of augmenting staff.
Before choosing the outsourcing partner, make sure to conduct extensive market
research to find the best-suited company. With many years of experience in staff
augmentation, WolfMatrix skilled teams are always ready to help you build a
fantastic team for you. If you want to work with us, use the contact form to get in
touch.
Frequently Asked Questions About Staff Augmentation
1. What is Staff Augmentation?
Staff augmentation is defined as enlisting the help of skilled personnel
temporarily to expand the business operations. It provides a way for companies
to add the required skillset in a timely and cost-effective manner.
2. What are the benefits of Staff Augmentation?

12. Staff augmentation offers convenience, affordability, adaptability, and flexibility
for businesses. It helps businesses to fill the skill gap in an organization within a
short time. Business owners are free from the unnecessary burden of document
works and legal procedures as the service providers handle it—also,
augmentation aids in reducing payroll and operating costs within an
organization.
3. What are the differences between Staff Augmentation and
Outsourcing?
Staff augmentation and outsourcing are two different delivery models. In staff
augmentation, contractors focus on input. The clients maintain direct control over
the team. The contractor is in constant contact with the client.
With outsourcing, businesses pay for specific pre-arranged outcomes. The
outsourcing firm is committed to the outcome and handles developing an entire
project with its own resources and workforce. Companies have to give up
managerial control over to the outsourcing vendor.
4. How Much Does Staff Augmentation Cost?
The Staff Augmentation Cost changes depending upon the country and the type
of required service. Staff augmentation services firm provides services on an
hourly rate or a fixed rate.
5. What is the difference between staff augmentation and managed
services?
The main difference between the two services is that the contractor focuses on
delivering “outcome” at a pre-arranged price in managed services, but the staff
augmentation model is committed to providing an input irrespective of the

13. outcome.
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