If it dunks, it plays. Smurfs provide little consolation. My mom would make cookies for me, and life was good. When I was ready, my mom eventually made cookies with me—an entirely different experience. Side-by-side we worked together with shared responsibility, interest, and reward. Not only did we get to enjoy our sweet, shared victories, we had the benefit of newly shared knowledge, trust, and a collective experience that allowed us to tackle the next batch even more prepared.
Our team of Sparkbox webmakers has been carefully and intentionally brought together to work with you rather than for you. We have found that we—our customer team and our own team—all do our best work when it is done collaboratively. The expectation for staff aug is typically that the contractor is working for their customer, fitting into a team, going with the flow, and fairly easily added or removed from the team as needs change.
Staff aug exists because—especially in an enterprise setting—adding full-time employees is really hard. Not to mention the time investment in interviewing and procuring the right talent. But working for a customer goes against the grain of who we are, and it contrasts our belief that the best work comes from a collaborative relationship. Here are a few examples. The larger the organization, the more siloed the teams.
Backend development, frontend development, design, marketing, content, and more are required from a web team. However, these groups rarely view themselves as a cohesive team because they are siloed by budgets, systems, goals, and leadership structures, which tend to create artificial ceilings for the work they could accomplish together.
We believe that valuable insight exists in each siloed group; however, that knowledge must be brought together to build more powerful solutions. In our experience, customer teams are usually open to working together to share their valuable tribal knowledge. These groups just need someone that speaks a common language to build a bridge and get communication flowing. YouTube embeds track user data for advertising purposes. You can watch the video on YouTube if you prefer not to grant consent for YouTube embeds.
