Software Development Staffing and Team Creation

Sometimes, the company already has a base team assigned some in-house or commercial software project, and want to increase the project productivity and/or exclude some risks by adding additional members to team without significant development cost increases. Black Knowledge Software can help such companies by providing them with sufficient workforce in particular level of granularity - either a team managed by qualified person or even a single highly experienced employee on a per-hour contract basis. This kind of service is also known as staffing.

For example, your company implements its own custom IT solution and require some additional personnel to develop required functionality, do some research tasks, perform quality assurance, unit testing and many other tasks. To be completed on time and within budget and be ready for all project risks, all these tasks may require additional personnel to be hired temporarily on contract basis. Hiring a good personnel, experienced in some particular technology area, is usually a difficult task. Also, hiring additional personnel definitely leads to significant exceeds of project budget.

Complete outsourcing, even good and inexpensive, like Black Knowledge Software provides, is not an option for such kind of development activities - because many people already work on this project for years and passing the project completely to new developers, which are not aware of your technologies and problem area, may introduce many new risks and will definitely force the deadlines to exceed unacceptable thresholds. Even more, outsourcing may not be appropriate because of some internal company-specific reasons (e.g. some secret or proprietary technologies, governmental regulations etc).

Black Knowledge Software, offers you a seamless way to resolve issues mentioned above. We can provide you with a dedicated team of professional developers with excellent experience in particular software technology, and delegate team management to you.
We provide the following options:

• Team, managed by technical lead, who controls the activity of team members (performs planning, resource assignment, task states tracking etc) and communicates directly with your project management. Anyway - you keep an ability to control your team at any level - including intervening into activity of individual developers.
• Individual developers, reporting directly to you. All management activity and project risk assessment delegated completely to you.
• Mixed option - combining the two scenarios above. For example you can allocate complex well-defined long-term tasks to our tech lead, while maintaining an ability to manually assign specific work items of your choice to individual developers.

All services, listed above, could be negotiated using a pricing scheme of your choice - per-hour, per-task or even combined scheme.