What is a Dedicated Team model?
In the modern world, it is becoming more and more popular to order a dedicated team. It’s convenient and simple. Let’s find out more about it – what are the pros and cons, how does it work, who is on the team?
Dedicated team for your choice. How to choose?
Expert analyses show that modern businesses have been planning for the shift from internal to external development for quite some time. The epidemic has only hastened the growth of outsourcing services, causing many companies to reconsider their own growth prospects and implement required changes as quickly as feasible. Many businesses have now obviously reached a tipping point where the “subsistence farming” business model with a rigid in-house policy is no longer viable. The practice of hiring an outside team of IT engineers has spread across numerous industries, with the financial sector and e-commerce leading the way.
What is a Dedicated team model?
The name of the dedicated team model speaks for itself. This is a project that a remote team from another organization is working on. Unlike an extended team, a committed team is a separate working group with its own governance and structures.
Dedicated Development Center – a collaboration model that allows a customer to have a team of specialists at their disposal, selected based on the project’s particular requirements and goals, as well as preferred project management methodologies. Since 1998, we’ve been assembling teams of capable engineers to work on both remote and internally managed projects in a wide range of technical and industry disciplines.
Along with time & material (T&M) and fixed price (FP), “dedicated team” is a model of cooperation between the client and the service provider. By signing an agreement to work according to the “dedicated team” model, the client receives at his disposal specialists who are selected taking into account the requirements for a particular product.
In the software development industry, a dedicated team is one of the most common methods of distant client collaboration. This type of teamwork is transparent, trustworthy, and efficient, allowing us to complete the tasks we set out to perform.
This technique often involves the client and the outsourcing development team working together for a long time. This sort of collaboration qualifies on the same level as the fixed-price and time-and-material models.
Compared to other models, DTM is more person oriented I would say. When hiring a dedicated team, most clients are not just looking for additional testing resources. They strive to get people who are motivated and interested in the project, who will be proactive and will do everything possible to ensure that the final product is perfect. The client needs specialists with whom he can communicate, who will be “on the same wavelength” with him. Therefore, the personality of the team members is very important.
Benefits of the Dedicated team model
Collaboration on the model of a dedicated team has a lot of advantages. It is important to understand them in order to determine for sure whether this type of cooperation suits you. Now we will tell you about the main advantages of this model.
Full control over the work of the team, even in the absence of the need for it, the possibility remains. The developers know their stuff well. You just have to establish feedback with them at a convenient time for you and promptly answer the burning questions of the team.
The cohesion of the team you work with. They have already worked together and soldered. They will not look at you skeptically when walking around their premises. Cohesion means that there is no need to resolve internal conflicts, a part of the human factor and mistakes due to misunderstanding are excluded.
Complex execution of tasks and greater immersion in the problem due to acquaintance with the company is also an advantage. Psychologically, the developers believe that the company for which they are doing the project is now also theirs. And they try to make the project better debugged, additionally focusing on goals.
The involvement and control over the project by the dedicated team is complete. Simply due to the fact that the team does not have, as such, distractions – they only work on one specific project. The project of the current customer – that is, yours.
Understanding the goals, objectives and ideas of the company on the part of the developers increases the final quality of the project. In the end, if the team understands how the company breathes and lives, it will be able to offer you good options for development or adjustments to the project. Exclusively due to the existing experience in the field.
To summarize, the dedicated team consists of a group of hand-picked professional specialists who are only focused on the development and implementation of your project. They’re laser-focused on delivering a high-quality, timely, and flawless execution of your strategy.
Now we will explain what is the economic benefit in cooperation with a dedicated team:
- hiring a specially selected team is less expensive than maintaining an office of employees;
- you pay a certain hourly rate and at the same time save on equipment, office rent, etc.;
- you do not need to spend a lot of time looking for each specialist separately;
- you do not need to pay for HR or administrative teams.
How to choose?
If you choose to work with a dedicated team, you will have access to a whole team of expert programmers and developers who will be hand-picked to meet your specific needs and business objectives. In fact, your technical staff is made up of just such a group. This form of collaboration is truly ideal, as it may meet any of your requirements and deliver the exact desired result, with a success rate of 110 percent.
Another benefit of a dedicated team that urges you to adopt this model is that you will not have to spend time, effort, or energy resolving all administrative, social, tax, or personnel concerns with your staff. As your development partners will assist you, you will have more time to focus on more critical company activities.
We recommend that you choose only trusted agencies for cooperation that can provide you with the desired result.
The Dedicated Team service is suitable for your project if:
- You expect the contractor and the team to be fully involved in the product and the specifics of your business.
- You form requirements during product development.
- You need to increase the pace of development, but there is no time and resources to attract, train and manage your own team.
- You assume that in the course of work, a change in the size of the team will be required.
- You require expertise outside of your focus or specialization.
How it works?
The structure of this model is easier to explain through the following steps:
- The customer should have a clear idea of what he wants. He must figure out how many people he’ll need for his project and what technological talents they’ll need.
- The contractor assembles or assembles a special team to meet the project’s requirements. The team and the customer agree on the project’s workload and requirements for a specific period of time.
- Specialists begin working during normal business hours.
- The customer has complete management control over the project and the team, and the team is solely focused on delivering the best results possible.
Who is in a Dedicated team?
It is worth answering the question – who is part of the dedicated team? Of course, it is logical that the composition of the team may change depending on your requirements and tasks.
Thus, the main members of such a team can be:
Front-end and back-end engineers
A front-end developer not only knows how to perfectly layout layouts of varying complexity, taking into account supported browsers or devices. He can also in some cases be engaged in interface design, application optimization.
In short, a backend programmer works on the internal logic and architecture of a website, mobile application, and other software. Thanks to his efforts, the product functions quickly and correctly, provides the user with high-quality search, and safely stores user and other data.
DevOps engineers
When developing a work plan, a DevOPS engineer helps determine which architecture to use in the program, how exactly the scaling will take place, and which orchestration system is best to use.
Business analysts
A business analyst is a person who stands between the business and the development team. It collects and identifies requirements for a future product or system functionality, and then translates them into a language understandable to engineers.
Product managers
Profession product manager appeared on the market not so long ago. Some five years ago, it was the “unidentified salmon” in the digital world. Now, without a product manager or product manager, most startups, businesses, and the whole IT world in general, cannot imagine life.
The task of a product manager is to make the product cool and not upset the developer by setting the right tasks, allocating time and setting priorities. Otherwise, there will be few features and many unfixed bugs.
Project managers
The main responsibility of the PM is to bring the idea to implementation on time, using all resources. It sounds quite peaceful, but behind every word lies a whole series of difficult tasks.
Can I learn how to develop software myself?
Of course, in the modern world, almost everything is possible, so learning to develop software is quite realistic. There are thousands of different online and offline courses, there are even relevant specialties in higher education institutions, with the help of which you can thoroughly learn all the nuances of this area.
However, you need to understand that this requires a lot of time and money. Therefore, we recommend saving your strength and nerves and ordering software development services from professionals.
A dedicated staff aids in the recruitment of specialists who are thoroughly immersed in the intricacies of the client’s industry. Furthermore, the crew is adaptable to the needs of the customer, and the project can scale as needed.
Regardless of your industry, business goals, or software features, DTM can assist you in obtaining a dedicated testing crew that will work according to your preferred interaction scheme: remotely, on the client-side, or a combination of both.