EXTENDED TEAMS
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Calculating The Benefits
Curious about how much time and money you could save by partnering with us for your software engineering needs? Try out our Time to Hire Benefit Calculator below!
We’ve put together this simple calculator to help you get an idea of how much of an impact using an Extended Team could have on your project.
It’s a quick way to see the real impact our services can have on your projects helping you get the talent you need, faster and more cost-effectively.
Using the Business Benefit (£) tab, enter:
The annual business impact of the project, either in terms of extra revenue or lower costs.
Time to hire – permanent – the amount of time in weeks it typically takes you to get a developer on board from having a job spec to having them contribute.
Time to hire – Extended Team – the amount of time in weeks it would take to get an extended team member contributing from having a job spec. In our experience, this is in the 4 to 6 week range
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The calculator will show you how many extra stories could be delivered if you can reduce the time it takes to get a team in place by using an Extended Team. While not a financial metric, this shows how much extra value can be delivered to the business by using an Extended Team.
Insight is power!
The calculator can show you:
How much business benefit is delayed by each week the project has not been started. In an ideal world, there would be no delay once a project has been approved or signed off, but in the real-world, if there is not already a team in place, then there will be a delay as the team is assembled.
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How much business benefit in total is delayed by the time permanent hires are in place – the weekly benefit multiplied by the number of weeks it takes to hire permanent resources.
How much business benefit in total is delayed by the time extended team members are in place – the weekly benefit multiplied by the number of weeks it takes to get extended team members on board.
The value of the business benefits delivered early by using an Extended Team – the delayed business benefits total from permanent hires minus the delayed business benefits from extended team resources. This shows you the value that can be delivered to the business earlier by using an Extended Team.
Control the impact
If the financial impact of your project is not so clear-cut, you can use the Feature Backlog Impact tab.
This works out how much extra functionality can be delivered if an Extended Team is used for a project rather than permanent hires. Another way of looking at it is that the backlog of features that the business is waiting for will be smaller by using an Extended Team that can get started faster than permanent hires.
The calculator looks at how many potential sprints will be impacted by the time it takes to hire. If you had a team ready to go at the start of the project, there would be no impact – user stories could be worked on immediately. For every week you are waiting to get a team in place, sprints are not happening, and therefore fewer features are being delivered. By using an Extended Team, time to hire is reduced, the number of potential sprints impacted is reduced, and more features are delivered.
To calculate the difference in the number of features that could be delivered, you need to enter:
The number of developers you need in the team
How many User Stories a Developer would be able to complete per week on average
How many weeks are in each sprint
Time to hire – permanent – the amount of time in weeks it typically takes you to get a developer on board from having a job spec to having them contributing.
Time to hire – Extended Team – the amount of time in weeks it would take to get an extended team member contributing from having a job spec. In our experience, this is in the 4 to 6 week range.
Why Choose Evolved Ideas?
Software development leaders often see saving money as the primary benefit when they are looking at extending or augmenting their development teams. Nearshore developers can have attractive day rates compared to onshore resources, but using Extended Teams has other benefits.
One of these is the ability to deliver business value faster than an organisation would be able to do by hiring permanent team members. By working with a partner that has an existing talent pool and the ability and experience to find and attract high quality development staff quickly, project teams can be put in place more rapidly than is possible by hiring in-house.
Is this a quantifiable benefit though? We would say that it is. Most projects have a business case – if the business spends money building this then it’s either going to increase revenue or reduce cost. If you can deliver that revenue increase or cost saving faster, then the business starts making or saving money earlier.
Another way of looking at it is how many extra features could be delivered by using an Extended Team, and how much that would reduce the project’s backlog.
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Extended Teams Director
Evolved Ideas
As Director of our Extended Teams service, Brian is responsible for the part of Evolved Ideas’ business that provides skilled technical resources to extend or augment clients’ in-house development teams.
This is a delivery model that works well for organisations that have an established development team and are experienced in running software development projects. Working with the team at Evolved Ideas allows clients to adjust their resourcing dynamically in a way that isn’t possible with permanent team members, and also enables access to experienced, self-sufficient developers, enabling a faster, more streamlined approach to recruiting, as opposed to the permanent market.
By maintaining strong relationships and clear delivery structures, Brian ensures our extended teams integrate effectively with client organisations and continue delivering value as projects evolve and scale.
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