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Staff Augmentation
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Managed Service
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Time Commitment
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- Standard engagements are six months, renewable
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Management & Quality Control
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- Owned by client management team
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- Owned by Prosoft Nearshore and managed through Service Level Agreements
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Costs
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- Hourly cost per consultant assigned
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When it’s best used
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- Temporary help for a defined project
- Long-term external team with a constant lead that can expand during releases or
seasonal surges
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- To transfer the maintenance and support of applications or websites for yearly estimated
work. E.g., parallel support of a legacy application while moving to a new platform
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Task Allocation
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- Assignments are given and completed on an ad hoc basis
- Resources are managed as an onsite contractor would be
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- Objectives are identified on a quarterly or monthly basis; tasks are assigned locally
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Benefits
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- Teams can be expanded and contracted as the business needs change
- Accountability and productivity are easily measured as task management is at the
client level
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- Ownership resides with Prosoft, so less daily management needed on the client side
- Ability to transfer entire application knowledge base
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Drawbacks
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- Resources at the developer level can shift as the client scales up and down
- Given the shorter nature of the assignment, rates can be higher
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