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Driving innovation and growth using additional developers: IPSI
Get a an injection of top software talent into your team and boost performance to deliver your projects faster.
Benefits
- Access hard to find skills
- Scale your team fast and flexibly
- People you can depend on, who hit the ground running
- Fill gaps where permanent hires aren’t suitable
- An immediate solution to difficult resignations
Who should use this service
If you run a development team and are in one of the following situations:
- You need to scale up
- Your project(s) are falling behind
- You need specialist skills but can’t find them
- Your team needs an injection of fresh thinking/ideas or best practice
- A team member has resigned (or is about to resign)
If you instead need a whole team of specialists for your development team, check out our whole team packages.
All staff augmentation packages include:
- Specialists work onsite with your team (or remote if you’d prefer)
- Option to permanently hire our specialists full-time after 12 months
- Scale up or down to meet your needs
- Replacement guarantee
- Bench of specialists ready to go at anytime
- Thorough interviews, background and reference checks (not just a box ticking exercise) handled by us
- Specialists receive support and training from our team of 50+ tech specialists
- We run 1on1’s with the team and improve based on your regular feedback
Packages
Mid level resource
3 month minimum term
- Software developer
- Full stack developer
- Front end developer
- Back end developer
- Web developer
- Mobile developer
- Technical business analyst
- Business analyst
- Product manager
- Project manager
- Solution architect
- DevOps engineer
$1,350/day for 3 months
Senior resource
3 month minimum term
- Software developer
- Full stack developer
- Front end developer
- Back end developer
- Web developer
- Mobile developer
- Technical business analyst
- Business analyst
- Product manager
- Project manager
- Solution architect
- DevOps engineer
$1,500/day for 3 months
Technical lead
3 month minimum term
- Technical lead
- Principal software engineer
- Cloud architect
- Solution architect
- Business analyst
- Technical business analyst
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$1,650/day for 3 months
We’re that confident in our local specialists, and our technical and cultural selection process, that if we place someone with you and you’re unhappy with their contribution after a week – we’ll refund your money, no questions asked or find a replacement (your choice).
It’s a risk-free way to boost your team’s performance, fast.
*For companies with 50-200 staff and when a risk-free trial is specified in the pricing section of the proposal. Moreover, the client may elect to exit this agreement at no cost on the 5th business day of engagement by giving written notice of their decision.
How it works
We place one of our full time, local experts into your team, providing hard to find, quality talent that will enhance delivery at every stage of your development process. Typical engagements are 3-12 months, however you have the flexibility to engage for as little as a few days or as long as you need. If you need more than one specialist, check out our whole team packages.
We are trained to integrate seamlessly with you, in-house or remote.
Our process
1
Understand needs
If you have a compelling strategy and roadmap, we meet to understand your deliverables, timeline and the number and type of specialists required. If you don’t have a compelling strategy and roadmap our Strategy/UX team can help.
Outcome: Agreed roles and commercial terms.
2
Candidate selection
We have a bench of proven consultants ready for immediate deployment so you can skip the usual notice period for new hires. If you need talent that’s not on our bench we run the entire interview and technical assessment process.
Outcome: Specialists ready for deployment, without distracting you from delivery.
3
Onboarding
We integrate our specialists within your team, ensuring they are set up for success and on-boarded into your business. We set them up with all of the equipment they need, you don’t have to do anything. A single monthly invoice makes budgeting and reconciliations easy.
Outcome: Productive specialist accelerating your delivery.
4
Performance improvement
You maintain control, and manage the specialist as you see fit. We proactively collect performance feedback from you each month. This is used in our fortnightly one on ones with the specialist to provide coaching, training & development. The specialists we embed in your team are supported by our entire agency team of 60 tech specialists.
Outcome: You get increasing value from the specialist every month.
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Scale up or down as needed
As your needs evolve you can extend your engagement, or add or remove skills on-demand. In the rare event a specialist isn’t the right fit, we replace them at no cost. After engaging one of our specialists for 12 months you can even hire them as a permanent team member.
Outcome: Your team has the right size and skills to deliver what you need at all times.
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FAQs
Do I still maintain control of my project and team?
Control of the project remains yours, and you keep your strategy intact, distributing the work among all team members – both in-house and outsourced. Our specialists contribute as members of your team and you manage them accordingly.
What is the Staff Augmentation agency responsible for?
We provide qualified, professional software talent to suit your needs. We also help onboard our specialists, and support their ongoing performance, learning and development via fortnightly 1-on-1’s and feedback sessions.
How much does it cost?
Services like staff augmentation are sometimes seen as more expensive than hiring directly.
However, once you consider the direct and indirect costs of a permanent hire (sick leave, holiday leave, superannuation, hardware, training, recruitment fees, redundancy and replacement costs and the hassle and loss of focus it involves) vs staff augmentation, the cost is similar. Don’t take our word for it – contact us and we’ll share a comparison calculator so you can make an informed choice.
The value created by staff augmentation is far higher than the cost as a result of the flexibility, scalability and skills it provides.
Do I need to provide equipment and training?
No, we provide all of the resources the specialists require. You don’t have to worry about hardware, desk space, perks and benefits or training. Moreover, our specialists have access to our training, development resources and our internal staff.
Do I have to worry about superannuation, sick leave, holiday leave or payroll tax?
No. There are no permanent costs, no need for sick leave, holiday leave, superannuation, or payroll tax.
What is your process when assessing candidates?
We check your requirements against our bench to see if there’s someone suitable for immediate deployment. If there’s nobody suitable on our bench, we search our database of 20,000+ local candidates (many of them vetted), advertise via targeted ads and job boards, and also reach out proactively to outstanding candidates.
We book interviews and have the first profiles ready for you to assess as soon as possible. Once candidate(s) have been vetted and deemed a good fit by both our team and yours, we start the onboarding process. We have a thorough interview process, made up of the below steps:
– Resume screening
– Phone screening
– Candidate completes a practical test online which is assessed by hands on, tech experts
– Interview- a mix of questions on both cultural and skills fit. After the interview we will meet with you to discuss feedback on the candidate and the interview
– Reference checks – we ask questions enabling a thorough evaluation of the candidates past performance. Not just a box ticking exercise, but an opportunity to dig deeper to understand motivations, culture fit and contribution
How fast can I get someone?
Immediately if the skill set you need is on our bench. Meanwhile, if we need to hire for the role it can take one to six weeks. Contact us to check availability.
If I need them for longer – can I extend the engagement?
Yes.
Can I hire one of the specialists full time?
Yes, provided you’ve engaged the specialist for a minimum of twelve months.
How does it compare with hiring contractors directly?
VS hiring contractors, staff augmentation gets you faster access to higher quality talent with less effort.
– Faster access to candidates due to our bench and database of vetted candidates
– Less time and cost involved in recruitment: attracting, screening, interviewing, tech testing and also reference checking candidates
– Higher quality candidates due to our proven recruitment process
– Higher accountability including a replacement guarantee so you’re covered if anything goes wrong. We’ve been delivering successfully for 20 years (and intend on being here for the next 20!)
– Contractors usually have minimal or no notice periods, meaning they can stop work at any time. While our staff augmentation team have a four week notice period
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The quality and calibre of 4mation’s people are extremely high. We jointly defined the skills sets needed and cultural fit beforehand, the augmentation staff interacted extremely well with our team and hit the ground running.
Michael Donoghue CEO, IPSI
