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5 Qualities to Look for while choosing IT Staff Augmentation Company

IT staff augmentation is constantly improving the software development industry. And the market offers you a lot of benefits. It is your task to choose the best offshore team for outsourcing.

Let’s see what qualities to look for when choosing an IT staff augmentation company;

1: Experience

It should be on top of your priorities, though it shouldn’t be the only criterion. When choosing an offshore team, the experience of the partner is a wise decision. The reason is simple that the experienced offshore team;

  • They understand the growing pains of being a startup
  • Market volatility
  • Unforeseen service delivery problems
  • Efficiently surviving in unexpected outages

2: Domain Expertise

You would not like to invest hundreds of dollars for a project to end up with dissatisfaction because of the substandard final product. And this will be a complete waste of your money, effort and time.

To deliver the best quality product, offshore developers need to have expertise in some set of specialized skills. Hence, you need to consider the technical as well as non-technical skills of your offshore developer team. Make sure that the team has sufficient skills to fulfill your software requirements and communicate well with your in-house team.

3: Latest Tools & Technology

Without the ideal project management and communication tools, it is quite challenging to deliver quality outcomes.
Hence, ensure that your software development staff augmentation team is well equipped with your required technology stack for completing your work.

4: Communication

Communication is one of the significant challenges faced in offshore outsourcing. Thus your offshore team should have the ability to use the latest and easy ways of communication
Offshore developers need to be able to communicate efficiently. A set of communication mediums should be established, such as channels, language, etc. that eliminate the chance of miscommunication.

5: Reliability & Stability

You need to look for the offshore team that demonstrates a solid track record of accomplishment and who has safeguards and backups in case something unexpected happens.
It is better to check the past records and projects that your partner has completed. It will give you a clear picture of the working procedure of your partner.
Your IT staff augmentation partner should be 100 percent referenceable and offer high-quality evidence of tenure in the industry, testimonials, and case studies.

Conclusion
When choosing an IT staff augmentation company, you need to consider the qualities mentioned above that do what you would do only better at a reduced cost.

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Great article, couple of extra items in my article that people may be keen to read on a similar thread.

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