7 Benefits of A Dedicated Team in Custom Software Development

 

The current pace of business industries evolving dictates its own rules: products produced by companies must enter the market faster, cost less, and be of outstanding quality. This thesis applies to software development as well. 

At the same time, for companies for which software development is not the core activity, it may be difficult to follow such rules due to limited financial, time, and human resources. In this case, they may consider hiring dedicated teams. Let's find out the specifics of this collaboration model. 

What Is A Dedicated Team in Product Development?

A dedicated team in the context of software product development is a team of specialists from an outsourcing company selected according to the requirements, goals, and objectives of a particular project. Typically, this collaboration model is used for long-term projects, allowing maximum flexibility in workload, project specifications, and budget.

Unlike hiring in-house employees, with a dedicated team, you can start working on your project already 2-3 weeks after the first contact with the outsourcing company and stop this cooperation without any charges when the project is completed.

How Does The Dedicated Development Team Model Works?

Hiring a dedicated development team initially involves long-term cooperation between the client (employer) and the service provider (an outsourcing company that selects teams of specialists in its own talent pool for a specific project). At the same time, all team members work for a specific client in a full-time format, with full immersion in their work processes, but in the office of an outsourcing company and with local management.

It usually takes about 15-20 days from the first call with the client to the start of work on the project. This period is needed to come up with strict project requirements, select specialists for a specific project, as well as draw up and sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA).

If necessary, the client can scale the team by adding new specialists to it or removing existing ones if they are no longer needed. 

What Are The Main Benefits of A Dedicated Team Model in Product Development?

Once you have a general idea of how a dedicated team model works, WEZOM suggest moving on to describing its specific benefits.

Cost efficiency

The first and perhaps the most important advantage of working with dedicated teams (compared to in-house ones) is their cost efficiency. Indeed, instead of spending your company's budget on hiring, training, and retaining new specialists, as well as paying taxes, vacations, and sick days, you can hire a remote team for a specific project from a country where the average market rates for software development are lower than in yours. At the same time, you will not need to deal with the organization of job places, management, and other resource-intensive processes that not only negatively affect the budget but also postpone the release date.  

Quick start 

Above, we have already said that with a dedicated team, you can start working on a project in a couple of weeks from the moment of the first contact. Sometimes this process takes even less time: it all depends on the accuracy of your requirements for the project and the expertise of the team members who can bring them to life. In any case, these time frames are hardly achievable in the case of hiring in-office specialists.

Moreover, when interacting with such a team, you will not worry that work on your project will be suspended for an unknown period due to the dismissal or illness of some of the key team members since the outsourcing company with which you cooperate will immediately provide you with a replacement.

Effective interaction

Experienced outsourcing companies that provide dedicated team services have their own well-established and time-tested practices for interacting with clients, providing excellent cooperation results from project to project. In turn, local interaction may not be as effective if your company has not previously been engaged in software development, and, in general, this type of work is not included in the list of key business directions of your company.

Easy management

Dedicated teams have their own local managers who distribute tasks, make sure they are completed on time and are of proper quality, and generally provide end-to-end monitoring of internal workflows.

This saves you a lot of time, as you won't need to constantly check whether everything is going in the direction you need, which can be quite difficult when collaborating remotely and having to maintain ongoing business processes within your company in addition to software development.

Focus on your core business activities

Since all you need to succeed on your new software development project is to periodically evaluate the work done and refine your project requirements as needed, this will hardly distract you from your day-to-day business tasks. This means that you will be able to work at the same pace on your key business activities so as not to lose a competitive advantage in the market.

Culture adaptability

Unlike many other outsourcing collaboration models, dedicated teams completely immerse in the business processes of the companies for which they implement projects, sharing their internal values and culture. This aspect is extremely important for companies with strong branding and market position, as the final product will be fully consistent with them.

Flexibility

Often, dedicated teams collaborate according to the Time & Materials pricing model, which implies full adaptation to sometimes changing project requirements from the client. Unlike other outsourcing options that support a Fixed Price model, this flexibility is acceptable since the final estimation of the project budget is carried out according to the resources spent on it. Thus, cooperation with a dedicated team is beneficial both for the client, who will not worry that the team will have to change the course of the project due to changes in its requirements, and for the team itself.

End-to-end control over the project

The fact that project management is the prerogative of the outsourcing company that provided you with the services of a dedicated team does not mean that you will not be able to assess the quality of the completed parts and generally understand at what stage your project is. In particular, you will be able to discuss with your contractor the frequency of calls and arrange to show you the results of the work already done. This means that you will have confidence that the final solution will be delivered on time and meet all the specifications that you have agreed on with your dedicated team.

Conclusion

We hope that we have helped you understand the specifics of working with a software development dedicated team, and now you can come to an informed decision about whether to look for such a team or not. If your decision turns out to be positive, choose the team that will provide you with a fully-staffed team with experience in your business niche.