Software Development Staff Augmentation Solutions
Unemployment for software developers in the US is at an all-time low. This means that smaller companies have a real fight to find talent at a price they can afford, as the big guys have large recruiting budgets and entice with big salaries and benefits.
Options for Your Staff Augmentation Model
The current average time people stay in one job is 18 months. With such a high rate of turnover, companies face frequent gaps in capacity causing costly project delays and impacting business commitments. To combat that problem, companies have a few options.
There are tons of staffing companies offering people on a rent-to-hire basis. Most of these firms are still actively searching for the people when the client requests someone. Since they’re not permanent employees of the staffing company, there is no investment to evolve those people and no investment in their skills. To these people, money is the motivator in these situations and the individuals may jump for a higher offer quickly. Revenue for these staffing companies is tied to placing and replacing talent without an emphasis on quality and stability, making it difficult to get projects finished.
Some companies turn to offshore development. The low prices make this seem to be an attractive option, but there is a lot of risk involved. Potential issues include struggling to manage a distributed team across time zones, communication challenges or language barriers, exceedingly high turn-over, developers trading out, teammates not having the right skills, or unexpectedly low quality. In the long run, this often ends up being more expensive than local resources.
Let Geneca Be Part of Your Outsourcing Strategy
Geneca is not a staffing firm, nor do we offshore work. We employ highly skilled development talent selected for their abilities to move to different technologies and to solve problems. We invest in specialized training in professional consulting skill and the ability to invent software and drive project success. We employ them full-time and make them available exclusively to our clients. They bring experience from many technologies and situations to bring better thinking and solutions.
Our employees are American citizens based in the Chicagoland area with expertise in a wide range of technologies and industries. Genecians are experienced in tackling complex assignments for different companies, can ramp up quickly, and seamlessly transition work to your team when the time is right. We provide highly qualified talent you need to keep up with your evolving business.
What Makes Geneca Different
How are Geneca’s staff augmentation services different from others you’ve likely encountered?
We don’t only offer a service – we offer partnership. We take the stress out of human resource management. We create the best option for you to achieve your goals, all while remaining flexible along the way.
Geneca’s consultants are our full-time, salaried employees who have trained to be professional consultants. They are not working for you temporarily while they hunt for a job—consulting with you is their job. When the assignment with you ends, they will smoothly offboard with you and then transition to their next engagement. Since they still work with us, you can reach out if you have questions or would like to utilize the same person again or need access to past thinking.
Our Genecians consistently delight their clients, whether they’re working remotely or onsite directly with in-house teams. When you add one or more of these uniquely talented tech professionals to your team, you get:
- Software specialists that speak business as well as they speak tech
- Dedicated team members trained to onboard quickly and provide value from day one
- Problem solvers that can quickly identify a challenge, assess the situation, and implement a solid solution
- Collaborative individuals with an unwavering commitment to deliver value and propel your business forward
- Consultants with a wide experience and knowledge base from working with multiple clients across industries
- Extended Geneca network available to brainstorm and advise
Features of Geneca’s Outsourcing Services
Staffing Capacity Gap
If you have an unexpected vacancy, have a team member on extended leave, need an extra burst of capacity, or need skills you don’t normally carry, Genecians smoothly transition in and out of your projects to give you what you need right when you need it.
Product Evolution
If you want to be able to add new features to your software products when your budget allows, we’re ready. You can return time and again to the same team and enjoy the predictability of a long-term partner without the expense of having a development team on your payroll. We have on-demand and retainer-based models.
Roles You Need
Instead of hiring a full team–architect, UI/UX designer, BA, Project Manager, Developers, QA–you can utilize the talent you need for only the time that makes sense for your project. Use our consultants to enhance your in-house team how and when you need to.
This is our 11th year working with Geneca as our technology partner. On an average month, we purchase 80 hours of development time to use for difficult support items or enhancements from our backlog. Every year, we have a few months that we increase to around 400 hours a month mixing in Architect, BA, and QA skills to add a new set of features to one of our products. More than once, we have added hours to cover while we hired new full-time developers. Our Geneca client partner works with us to keep our technology plan in place and moving forward. We never worry about capacity because we know we have Geneca. They provide the flexibility and the quality that I need to run my IT department.”
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