Every company at some point during the web development process reaches the stage, when there’s not enough hours a day to fulfill all uprising issues. There are two possible ways to solve this problem: to hire new specialists or to outsource some tasks to the other company or a particular person. It may be hard to make up the mind between these choices, as both of them have something to offer.
So what is the right decision, particularly for you and your business? First of all, you need to outline the key areas for your company along with those, you can outsource. In fact, if certain service differentiate your business from others, you should better delegate it to in-house staff. Once you defined, what areas can you afford to outsource and which ones are of particular importance for your business, you can start considering the variants.
Outsourcing is a good decision, if the task you need to fulfill is a short-term one, and you are not sure, that there would be enough work for a specialist to do further on. Likewise, if the task requires specific resources of equipment (for example, if that’s web development services, some specific software could be needed), it would be a responsibility of the company you outsource the job to. Outsource is also good for the fact, that you immediately gain high-skilled team of specialists, who can do their work well instead of letting new employees learn the tasks and get the experience. At the same time, it could be very difficult to find an outsourcing company, that matches your needs and requirements perfectly. Besides, good specialists usually have a lot of work, so it would take time for them to get started with your project.
The main benefit of hiring new staff is that you are able to build up the skilled team of professionals, devoted to a general idea and collocated in one place. In such a way you get the opportunity to supervise the staff and control, how well do they fulfill their work. At the same time, such strategy is time-consuming and quite risky. It also may turn out to be more expensive, than outsource in long-term perspective.
The best decision is to combine both strategies to benefit from them. So, you can keep dealing with your business’ day-to-day key tasks by hiring new in-house employees and outsource some urgent job, that requires specific skills and equipment. In long-term perspective, it would result in more thoughtful time and resources consumption.