Staff Augmentation for your software development team

Team augmentation is the use of external resources temporarily to augment the capacity of your organisation. The control over the project remains on your end, and you keep all the strategic competencies completely in-house, distributing the work among all team members—both in-house and outsourced.

– Innovation: Introduce new perspectives and ideas to your development team. Add new skills to complement your in-house capabilities.

– Savings on hiring: Delegate the advertising, interviewing, technical assessments and reference checking to us and access developers ready to be integrated quickly.

– Control: You directly manage our people who work on-site as part of your team.

– Agility: Increase or reduce your team to meet your project demands.

– Predictable pricing: Fix your costs per resource.

An augmented staff member typically works on-site as part of the organisation’s team. The team/staff augmentation supplier is responsible for providing qualified, professional talent, and the organisation is responsible for managing that talent.

No, we handle all of the resources your staff require. We work with you to ensure the staff member is on-boarded correctly and has everything needed to hit the ground running.

When you partner with an established team augmentation supplier, you get immediate access to top talent without the usual recruitment headaches. There are no permanent costs, no need for sick leave, holiday leave, superannuation, or payroll tax.

Building iPhone and Android apps can be expensive as both platforms are required to be built separately. However, there are technologies such as Flutter from Google that can be used to save cost for mobile app development. These technologies can only be used for technically less challenging apps and we will always evaluate these options at the start of the project.

EB Pearls is the technology specialists, we work with a whole host of technology. Some of the technologies we work with are: WordPress, Drupal, Shopify, Magento 2, iOS (Swift), Android (Java and Kotlin), Flutter, React native, NodeJS, PHP framework (Laravel, CodeIgniter, Yii and Symphony), Asp.net and Database (MongoDB, DynamoDB, MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle)

When you opt into EB Pearls’ staff leasing program, you will get a talented developer or team in your chosen technology and you become your extended employee. You can assign someone on your side to manage the developers, which means you will have full control of what they work on. Here are some further details: Every month, your developer will work for you for 22 days/month (minimum 176 hours). You handle all project management, and communication can be done through email, Skype and phone. The work is carried on between 8:30 AM – 5:30 PM (Mon – Fri) in Kathmandu time, which is 12:45 PM – 9:45 PM AEST. Invoices are sent every 30 days and work must be paid 1 month in advance.

We will make sure we set the expectations from the outset with a workshop to discuss: Complete transparency: After our first engagement, we present you a Reseller agreement which allows you to understand our key offering and services. You will have the complete peace of mind that we will abide by the terms and conditions set out in the document. Understanding your needs and process: We want to learn what problems you need solving, so we know how to provide the best solutions. This means understand what to expect in the future. Communication and Accountability: We discuss how you can always be in the loop, communicating with the development team and the Sydney/Melbourne team. We will also give you a rundown about what you can expect when it comes to weekly reporting. IP & White labelled: Be rest assured that you’re in safe hands when you work with us. Your websites and apps are your property after we handover the project to you. We never communicate with your client directly, unless you let us, so everything is white labelled and you control the communication within the project. Agile development sprints: We will discuss how we use the Agile method to make sure our development process is optimised. We pride ourselves in using this iterative method to ensure that testing detects bugs early, the user is always first and the product reaches market in the fastest time, with the highest quality.

• Screening: We first screen your application to determine whether your profile fits against the job description.
• First Interview: We call the shortlisted candidates for a first round of interviews which is mostly face-to-face with the People Ops team and the manager of the hiring unit.
• Assignment : Some positions might include a testing phase customized to the job role. This might be in the form of written examination, home assignments and presentations.
• Second Interview: Second round of interviews are usually for a deeper exploration of mutual fit  with a panel comprising of People Ops Head and Projects Ops Head
• Team Meeting: Some positions include a round of team meeting with various department/unit heads for a group discussion session.
• Final selection: We make our final selection based on consolidated feedback from all interviews, by carefully comparing the candidate profile, interview performance, reference checks, immediate job requirements and  cultural fit with EB Pearls.
• Offer and contracting: If you make it to the final stage, we will make you an official job offer. Your acceptance of this offer triggers the contractual processes.
• Onboarding: Based on your joining dates we will prepare an induction schedule to make sure you have everything you need to know and will provide you with the tools, so that you can start doing what you do best in the new challenging environment.

Developers must give us 1 month’s notice before leaving and we will let you know when this happens. We will replace the developer are soon as possible, but in the meantime, you will have a stand-in developer, so your project is not delayed.

Sydney team: 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM AEST

Kathmandu team: 12:45 PM – 9:45 PM AEST

In Australia, we handle all the account management, business strategy, solution conceptualisation and design. If you require any of these services, you can work with our staff in Sydney and Melbourne, who will be able to assist you. In Kathmandu, all our developers work to bring websites and apps to fruition. We have a variety of developers from different disciplines, across the web and mobile technologies.

We hold transparency with utmost importance. You can expect to receive daily, fortnightly and monthly reports of progress. Developers maintain a timesheet and update the progress on assigned tasks everyday. This means that you’re able to keep track of the work that is undertaken. EB Pearls will provide fortnightly/monthly reports surrounding the work that has been completed by the developer. In these reports, you can expect to see, how effective resource utilisation has been, discrepancies between estimated, planned and actual hours and the tasks that have been completed. As part of our utilisation of the Agile method, we will also provide you a Burndown chart, which plots ideal effort hours against actual effort hours, maintaining full accountability. These reports will help you see the benefits of our service and help you understand if you have under or over-estimated work allocation. We can definitely help you understand these reports and suggest how to best optimise your resources.

We understand the importance of your ideas, so we are more than happy to sign any IP, Privacy or NDA documents that you would like use to. These documents are enforceable company-wide, so your idea is definitely safe with us.

You will have an account manager in Sydney/Melbourne who can answer your questions when your developer/s is not available. We manage the documentation of your project on a Google Docs that is constantly updated throughout the project, so you are on the pulse with your project. In terms of your day-to-day management of your projects, you will use Trello is easily lodge any issues you may have encountered in your project builds. Your developer/s will update the progress of issue fixes in real time, so you have utmost transparency. Your developer will also be available on Skype for live communication, and can be integrated within any other communication channels you currently use.

We ensure quality control on all fronts of the project, design, functionality and security. You will have a quality assurance engineer who will look through your app to ensure your pixel-perfect designs have been built perfectly. Automated and human testing is done to check all functionality has been implemented correctly. Testing is also conducted on a multitude of devices, ensuring that 95% of the world’s devices will be able to use your website with ease. Security in this modern world is nothing to take lightly. We run state-of-the-art scripts with your project to check that there are no vulnerabilities that may compromise the safety of your users/ and/or your clients’ data.