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Deploying augmented staff is indeed a strategic choice, but simply onboarding them is not enough. It is essential to measure their performance to ensure you achieve the expected value and improve return on investment (ROI).
This blog introduces you to key metrics that help you measure the ROI of IT staff augmentation, and by using these metrics effectively, you can unlock the full benefits of IT staff augmentation.
Let’s dive in!
This metric measures the time it takes for the augmented staff to reach full efficiency and productivity after onboarding. The sooner they become productive, the faster your projects will progress, meeting milestones and final deadlines on time.
Plan a structured hiring process divided into distinct stages, including sourcing, contracting, onboarding, documentation, and initial task assignment. Record the time invested at each step. Evaluate the duration taken by augmented staff to achieve specific milestones. This data should be compared with the timeline of your permanent employees to assess efficiency and performance differences.
From this comparison, you get insights on how quickly augmented staff become productive compared to full-time employees. The costs related to long hiring and training cycles are eliminated, idle time decreases and projects can be delivered more quickly, resulting in improved ROI of IT staff augmentation.
This planned approach eliminates guesswork, confusion, and delays during onboarding.
It helps augmented staff to resolve their queries independently and eliminates reliance on existing teams.
These programs help in speeding up knowledge transfer, which directly accelerates productivity.
This metric evaluates the positive improvements in your business operations after adding augmented staff to your team.
Set clear business goals and baselines to help you track your progress. Before augmenting your staff, measure the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of your business against your existing workforce.
After staff augmentation, track the same performance indicators and compare the results in both cases. Notice the difference and any improvement shows a positive impact on the staff augmentation ROI.
You get quantifiable data on staff output, helping you create and adjust strategies for enhanced productivity.
This metric focuses on utilizing permanent employees more efficiently.
It evaluates how effectively the permanent staff can focus on high-value tasks that drive growth, while augmented staff handles specialized or routine tasks.
Use project management software or time-tracking tools to analyze the time permanent staff allocates to various tasks. Divide them into operational and strategic tasks, and calculate the time invested in high-value versus low-value activities. Repeat the process after incorporating staff augmentation.
Notice the difference in time permanent employees dedicate to low-value tasks versus on strategic initiatives.
Regularly audit your workloads to identify task distribution inefficiencies. All tasks are not the same and require specialized expertise, which may be lacking in your core team. Therefore, these tasks can be strategically delegated to augmented staff, efficiently filling IT skill gaps.
Further, assess the internal team’s bandwidth. Leverage project management tools and time-tracking systems to gain valuable insights on it. If they still fall short, expand the scope of augmented staff to support the core team.
This metric measures the cost savings you achieved by leveraging augmented staff instead of onboarding full-time employees.
Compare the total cost of hiring full-time employees—including salaries, employee benefits, training, and overhead costs—to the cost of hiring augmented staff considering various pricing models.
Cost Savings= Full-Time Employees Hiring Cost — Augmented IT Staff Hiring Cost
This calculation results in a definite number of the cost savings you made.
It helps in long-term knowledge retention, leading to significant cost savings over time, by ensuring that valuable knowledge from temporary staff is captured and retained within your organization.
The resource elasticity ratio measures how quickly and cost-effectively you can adjust your resources, such as staff, time, and budget, to match changing demand.
A high elasticity ratio means you can quickly add or downscale more resources as needed, helping you save money during slow periods.
Compare the cost of scaling up and down separately with permanent staff and augmented staff:
With permanent employees, account for recruitment costs such as background checks, screening, and interviewing. Include onboarding expenses for training, equipment, and administrative costs, along with long-term costs including salaries, employee benefits, and more.
For staff augmentation, you have to pay as per the pricing model you have opted for, with minimal onboarding costs and no long-term costs.
When scaling down full-time employees, it accounts for severance pay, legal fees, and rehiring costs. Whereas staff augmentation involves little to no additional cost beyond the final invoice.
This Staff augmentation vs permanent staffing comparison helps you decide which approach to move forward with while maintaining operational efficiency and financial health.
These strategies help you scale up or down your resources quickly, improving your resource elasticity ratio by aligning your spending with actual demand.
Measuring the ROI of IT staff augmentation can help you understand whether your investment is paying off. With these insights, you can make decisions that boost project success, overall business efficiency, and cost savings.
Smart IT Staff takes this a step further by applying smart, agile principles to IT staff augmentation. Our proven approach and pre-vetted professionals ensure that you only pay for the talent you utilize and when you need it, while tracking key performance metrics to maximize staff augmentation ROI.
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