Dedicated Teams
What is a dedicated team in outsourcing?
Building an outsourced dedicated team is a process in which a client partners with CodeStringers to assemble a team of personnel to work at the direction of the client in building a software product or a portion of one. The difference between outsourced software product development and a dedicated team is in how the team is managed with the former being managed by a CodeStringers executive who acts as an extension of the client’s product leadership team and the latter being directly managed by the client’s product leadership. Dedicated teams may include a variety of resources that may include some or all of the following: product management; user experience and interface design; backend, frontend and/or mobile development, quality assurance testing and automation engineering; and devops to define, build, test, release and manage a client’s product.
What type of companies does this engagement model fit?
Virtually any company that needs to build a software product may benefit from this model, but common examples include:
- Software development departments that need to offload a portion of their product development but want to self-manage the team.
- Startup technology companies that have founders or executives with product and development leadership experience but want to build a development team at a lower cost than hiring personnel internally.
The commonality of customers hiring dedicated teams is that they have internal staff to define the high level product requirements and leadership to oversee the development program and team members.
What makes CodeStringers unique in providing outsourced dedicated teams?
Firms looking to build a dedicated team with an outsourcer need to trust that the personnel assigned are “A+” personnel and that those personnel will adhere to a set of values. At CodeStringers we recruit the top personnel in the geography of our development subsidiary (Vietnam) and we screen candidates prior to hiring not only for job function and technical skills, but also for cultural fit and adherence to our corporate values of integrity, craftsmanship, and innovation. All personnel in the geography of our subsidiary are hired for a two-month probationary period during which we further evaluate what we tried to learn during the interview and reference process prior to hiring. If a person does not have the required job and technical skills or fails to live up to our cultural standards, probation is terminated and new candidates are recruited.
When CodeStringers builds a dedicated team for a client, we assign a team of resources that includes the “right” level of seniority and we provide a management/leadership structure who, transparent to clients, oversee those resources to ensure that our standards of quality are met. And the cost of that leadership oversight is bundled in our monthly resource pricing. In other words, we “sell” the client a team of personnel, but we also have management oversee the work quality of those people and include the cost of that extra service in our pricing. Larger outsourcers just assign a team and hope for the best and, when the best doesn’t happen, blame the client for mismanaging the initiative.
We do these things because we genuinely stand behind our corporate values: Integrity, Craftsmanship, Innovation. Our job is to help clients define the “right” product; keep the promises we make; and provide a level of quality and manageability that’s more akin to insourcing than outsourcing.
What are the benefits of outsourcing dedicated teams?
This approach is commonly used when a company has the in-house expertise or resources to manage a development team but lacks the budget to afford insourcing or the reputation to recruit A+ talent. Here are some key benefits of outsourced software product development:
Cost Efficiency
Outsourcing dedicated teams is more cost-effective because our offshore development subsidiary affords labor costs that are significantly lower than fully-loaded onshore labor costs.
Access to Expertise
As an outsourcer, we build hundreds of applications in a wide range of industries leveraging an even wider range of technologies. Working with CodeStringers allows clients to tap into battle-hardened expertise.
Scalability
Dedicated teams can be scaled up or down according to project needs, providing flexibility and cost control without the challenges of layoffs if you need to downsize the team.
Global Talent Pool
CodeStringers sources the top one percent (1%) of personnel in the geography of our offshore subsidiary (Vietnam) whereas companies insourcing development might only have access to the top fifty percent (50%)
CodeStringers is a leading dedicated team outsourcer
CodeStringers has provided dedicated teams to clients ranging from startups to large corporations and has the expertise, experience and personnel to cost-effectively expand your internal development capacity.