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How to accomplish a team's objectives with augmented staff?

Augmenting temporary staff offers companies an outer perspective to help products or service’s development. Because of this, some team parts have never worked together before, they are worried that the goals of the team will be impacted. So, it's very important to plan the objectives in an efficacious way. What can you do?

Separate objectives and tactics:

These concepts don't mean the same. Objectives refer to the aims that are to be reached with the project, while tactics are the procedures that help us complete those objectives. Both need to be established in the projects and all the team must comprehend and apply them.

Execute a DevOps culture:

DevOps culture refers to a set of practices that mix software development and IT operations, its goal is to shorten the life cycle of the systems development and achieve a continuous shipment with a high software quality. With this method teams will be more aligned, less stalled and will take part in more phases of the product’s life cycle. Creating a DevOps culture increases productivity.

Define communication ways:

Each team member comprehends their roles and goals, several communication ways need to be set and everybody has to know them. Using tools like Slack or Skype and choosing a software for project management, like Jira Software Cloud will help with team's communication. Team leaders need to guarantee that both the internal and augmented staff use the instruments to have constant communication.

Finally

The team’s objectives in IT Staff Augmentation projects can seem hard to reach, nevertheless, following these steps will make it simpler to achieve the objectives of the project.

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