When starting a new IT Project, one of the most difficult tasks is hiring the right talent. Many companies evaluate the benefits and risks of using existing staff or hiring outside IT professionals or IT consultants for the work. This video explores the tradeoffs of utilizing all three pools of talent: internal staff, vendor professional services and temporary IT consultants.
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Introduction
When starting a new IT Project, one of the most difficult tasks is hiring the right talent. Many companies evaluate the benefits and risks of using existing staff or hiring outside IT professionals or IT consultants for the work. This video explores the tradeoffs of utilizing all three pools of talent: internal staff, vendor professional services and temporary IT consultants.
About Darby Consulting
At Darby Consulting, we’re an IT Staff Augmentation firm focused on finding and selecting experienced IT professionals so our clients can gain faster access to the best, most qualified talent at a lower cost. We use consultant matching tools backed by artificial intelligence and robotic process automation, so our clients spend less time interviewing IT professionals and more time responding to the needs of their customers.
Whether you’re needing a cloud software consultant or project manager with expertise in big data management, master data management, predictive analytics solutions, or SaaS application architecture, Darby Consulting provides IT staffing solutions leveraging extensive experience in enterprise data management and data management systems, not only for oil and gas but also clinical data management.
Darby Consulting also provides IT Staff Augmentation to support enterprise IT infrastructure management projects. With expertise in IT Infrastructure consulting and IT security consulting, Darby Consulting can provide Houston IT Outsourcing solutions leveraging our expertise in IT Staff Augmentation.
Transcript
I’m Dan Darby. I’m one of the principals here at Darby Consulting, and we’re going to put a brief video series together about how to avoid selecting the wrong IT project team for your technology related projects and kind of give you some of the inside look at the tools and templates and principles and ideas that we have around selecting really great talent to really place on complex IT projects.
And so this video series is going to talk a bit about what do we do at Darby to select the best team to deliver the highest quality project at the highest level of success. So, when you take a strategic view of it. You have three different options.
First, you can look internally to your employees. That’s your lowest cost option if you look at the hourly rate. You’re talking about fifty to a hundred dollars an hour. It’s a low-cost approach and employees of an IT department are very good at understanding the IT infrastructure. But typically, what we find as a trade-off is that employees may be very good at maintenance and operations of their existing systems, but when it comes to implementing new software, they don’t always have the knowledge and experience of the software hardware itself.
On the other end of the spectrum, we see organizations working with the software vendor or hardware vendor, their professional services. That’s a good route to take. They come with the highest bill rates though sometimes charging over 200 an hour to up to 300 an hour so it can be quite expensive to go that route. But the trade-off there is you get a lot of technical expertise.
the latest and greatest information, and knowledge about the product itself. The trade-off as well is that the vendor as professional services don’t always have the expertise in planning and implementing projects for an organization. They’re really often just focused on their specific piece, their hardware or software and not so much on what it takes to implement it within the organization.
The middle ground is a consulting route and that’s where you have someone that has some experience with that same software or similar software, they have experience with how to implement, but the trade-off is that you are spending a bit more than you would on employees and those consultants may not necessarily have the latest and greatest knowledge about the product.
Usually when a client comes to us to help them develop a project team, assemble the best team that we can assemble, our recommendation usually is it’s all of the above option where we bring in professional services from the vendor with consultants as members of the project team.
And that’s really the best pools of talent to draw from a project team is usually not a good idea to just draw from one. So our next video we’re going to focus on once we identify the pools of talent, how to go about selecting the right individuals with the right skills within those pools of talent.
