Author: John Kullmann

In our new virtual working world, technology teams across all industries and geographies have an ongoing need to supplement their teams with IT contractors. Experience has shown that leaders dive into resumes to try and find the best qualified candidates. This is extremely important but to make that candidate successful, you need to have the right team structure in place. Innovatix Technology Partners has a history of working with companies in a variety of formats. The format best suited for you is dependent upon your company’s individual situation and requirements. On-site Contractors Although expensive, but this mode of engagement has great benefits to organizations. On-site availability of contractors allows project teams to sit in adjoining desks and seamlessly collaborate. If you’re in an area with a rich talent pool and you have the budget, this can work well. On-site contractors are typically used in a temp-to-perm scenario, where after demonstrated success the candidate is converted to a full-time internal employee. US Remote Resources Working remotely has become the norm. Remote US based resources serve as extensions to your team and can work out of a centralized facility or from their home office. They can travel for on-site training at joining or for important deliverables. This is a great way to get the resources you need while providing them the quality of work life they desire. Allowing people to work from home provides you top tier or specialized technology talent that can’t be found local to your office. US Hybrid Resources Hybrid mode refers to a way of working that combines elements of both remote work and on-site work. In a hybrid work model, employees may spend some of their time working from a remote location, such as their home, and some of their time working in an office or other on-site location.  There are many potential benefits to working in hybrid mode, including increased flexibility, reduced commute times, and the ability to take advantage of the resources and support of an office while still enjoying the benefits of working remotely. Most folks who can’t go to office every day are willing to continue using the hybrid approach.  Blended Managed Teams Blended managed teams engage a US team lead to coordinate work efforts and overseeing an international development team. At Innovatix Technology Partners, a Macrosoft, Inc. company, we have found this to be the most successful and cost-effective solution for a growing number of clients. It enables you to have a liaison who understands requirements, technology, and project schedule.  The team lead knows how to manage an international development testing network and support team. Agile coordination with daily standup meetings ensures long-term success and on-target delivery. This flexible solution provides you the ability to quickly scale up or scale down your resource needs.  Using the Agile methodology where requirements and solutions evolve through a collaborative effort while maintaining Sprint tracking ensures your project stays on schedule. Virtual Teams Virtual team is comprised of an entirely international team supporting your operations. This work very well if you have the internal resource team structure to allow you to package and communicate the work tasks to the international team. Critical to success is having a strong team lead managing and interacting with the virtual team members on a daily basis. We have found that Agile project management processes work best with a completely international team. Determining the right solution for you before engaging the resources ensures you’ll have success as you set up your project team. Information about Innovatix’s staffing solutions can be found on our website or contacting us directly.

Technology Staff Augmentation – What is it? Is it right for you as a company? Is it right for you as a candidate? And why would you want to partner with Innovatix? What is Technical Staff Augmentation? This assumes that you as an organization have an existing IT staff supporting your day-today needs, but you need to supplement that. Why? Maybe you have overflow work. Maybe you have a deadline you need to meet. Maybe you’re building out something that your team will operate, but these people become part of your existing team and work collaboratively, side by side, as opposed to wholesale, offshoring or outsourcing a development project that gets developed separately from this. This is integral and part of your team. Why would you want to do this? Well, maybe you have short term needs and only need to do this for a certain period of time, or maybe there’s a particular skill set that you’re looking for a technology aspect to help supplement. Also, you don’t have the upfront, cost and time associated with on-boarding a new person and you don’t have the ongoing overhead associated with it. So that’s why it might fit you as a company to look at technical staff augmentation, but you as a candidate. Why might it be right for you? First and foremost, it really allows you to look at interesting jobs in your specific niche and your specific area so you can quickly advance your career by growing your skills in your technical area that make you most desirable in the marketplace. And, it allows you to have a work life balance as you supplement your work and balance it with your life according to your schedule. So, you get to grow your skills in your specific area and have the balance of your work life. Why would you want to work with Innovatix? Well, Innovatix Technology Partners, a Macrosoft, Inc. company, is a 30 year old technology company. We’re based in New Jersey, and we work with companies around the US to help provide the best candidates for their needs. And, how do we do that? We have a deep talent pool that we’ve built over the past 30 years through our alumni, through our contacts, through our networking that we can reach into to find the right candidate specific for your requirements. And we’re completely transparent, both with the company to make sure that they understand exactly what’s happening and the candidate to ensure that they completely understand that it’s happening. And we pride ourselves in this transparency and working with people. Where do we focus on? Where do we work every day? Probably three areas: First would be Full Stack Java developers. If you have particular skills in this area or needs in this area, we can certainly help you. Next will be on Cloud Infrastructure. We’re dealing with this every day with candidates as well as clients. And the last or third area would be the Technical Project Manager focused on Agile Scrum methodology. Of course we work in many different areas of many different clients, many different technologies, but those are the three key focus areas that are right in the center of our bulls-eye that we can support you with today. Contact Innovatix if you’d like to understand how you can be a candidate working with us or if you as a company have need for technical staff augmentation.