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Panta rhei. Or everything moves, as Heraclitus of Ephesus once said. Yes, everything flows, everything changes. And things are changing especially fast in business.
Fifteen, even ten years ago, when creating digital products, the main alternative to hiring in-house developers was outsourcing the entire project to an external contractor. Today, everything is different. Hybrid approaches such as outstaffing, staffing, or IT staff augmentation are becoming increasingly popular, especially regarding recruitment services in IT.
Undoubtedly, one of the most striking examples of a hybrid format of cooperation between a customer and a supplier in conjunction with insourcing and outsourcing is a dedicated team. In this article, we will talk about such business cooperation in more detail.
A dedicated team is a model of cooperation with a digital service provider in which the client is supplied with a dedicated team of specialists, for example, dedicated software development team, for an agreed short period of time or on a long-term basis.
The dedicated team of developers is selected under the project's requirements based on these specialists’ experience and skills. The development management and coordination of the communication process may remain the responsibilities of the implementer. Dedicated teams usually work from the service provider’s office in this case.
The main goal of this dedicated team model is to quickly hire a dedicated development team that will fill the gap in the necessary knowledge and work like your own.
In this format of interaction, when you hire dedicated team from outside, this interaction format allows you to either completely replace the development staff or establish joint work with the internal team, subject to the clear division of responsibility.
The stages of introducing the dedicated team into the project work may be formulated like this:
There are several obvious advantages to using the dedicated team model in IT:
Everything changes, nothing stands still. And to reach the top of your business and remain on top, you also should change and adapt new business strategies and technologies to your workflow.
No doubt, one of these state-of-art and very successful strategies is the dedicated team model.