Consulting

We provide application development expertise for all of the areas detailed in Application Development. Our team will bring the complete package to your organization: leadership, technical proficiency, emotional intelligence, and effective communication. Our primary objective is your success. 

Recruiting

Although not a dedicated practice area for us, we have provided recruiting services for many of our clients. Unlike many firms in our industry, we refuse to submit candidates who have simply passed an alphabet soup of technology acronyms on a job posting. Any candidate we present will have been thoroughly interviewed by members of our leadership team that serve or have served in the role being filled. We may be slightly slower to respond, but by the time we offer up a recommendation, it will be someone we are confident will thrive in your environment and contribute to the success of your team.

Team Building

Team building goes well beyond staffing. We not only provide the right talent to help with your current technical needs, but we provide leadership in building a synergistic team, one where members are put into roles that allow them to make maximum contributions and bring joy to what they do. We also can help you balance skill sets across projects that use technology from different areas of the technology adoption life cycle. By actively addressing skill development across a portfolio of projects, we can help build a technically-balanced team that will also maximize retention, something this era of rapid technological change puts at risk.

The Most Important Decision

The magnitude of the decision to bring a new member onto the team cannot be overstated. Consider that even when the person is a great fit and performing well:

  • At least temporarily, some of the current team members will necessarily be less productive while they assist this new member in coming up to speed.
  • This person will be learning intellectual property on multiple fronts: business requirements, application of chosen technologies, process, and team culture.
  • Communication paths will increase. In general, larger teams are not quite as efficient as smaller teams. We choose to grow our team not from an ultimate efficiency perspective, but from a position where our overall throughput needs to be larger to complete projects in the required time frame.

Therefore, even when a new member is working out, there will be some productivity hits in the short term. When the member isn't performing, the costs grow and are amplified:

  • Not only is the rest of the team less productive, the new hire is not contributing.
  • Time has elapsed. Other candidates that were available at the start of this process are probably no longer available.
  • The entire selection process now has to be repeated.