(Dedicated teams & offshore)

A standing team that owns your product, not a queue of tickets

A dedicated development team is a squad assigned to you and nobody else: engineers, QA, a designer and a lead who plan, build, test and release. You set priorities; the team handles everything between that and a working version.

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Dedicated teams & offshore

(What you are actually buying)

Hiring individuals gives you hands. A dedicated team gives you a unit that estimates its own work, catches its own defects and turns up to a demo with something running. The difference shows up in your calendar: the management load moves from you to a delivery lead who does it for a living.

That only works if the team stays together long enough to learn the product properly. Rotating people through it to fill gaps elsewhere is how an offshore squad quietly becomes a group of expensive contractors.

(What we deliver)

How a dedicated team is put together and run

Composition is agreed at the start and reviewed each quarter. Everyone is assigned to you full time unless the contract says otherwise.

  1. A typical squad pairs back-end and front-end engineers with a QA engineer, part-time design and a delivery lead. DevOps and data specialists join for the phases that need them rather than sitting idle. The mix follows the product, not a template.

  2. The team grooms, estimates and sequences its own work against the priorities you set. Refinement, sprint planning and retrospectives happen without you in the room; you join demos and the roadmap conversation, which is where your time is worth most.

  3. A QA engineer inside the squad writes automated coverage as features land, not in a hardening phase six weeks later. Regression suites, environments and release checklists belong to the team, so a release does not depend on one person being awake.

  4. A weekly written update: what shipped, what slipped and why, defects open and ageing, and the decisions that need you. Burn-up and cycle time come from your tracker rather than a slide someone assembled on Friday afternoon.

  5. Add roles with a few weeks of lead time so screening and onboarding are done properly; reduce with 30 days notice per person. A quarterly review is the natural point to change shape, and nothing grows unless you ask for it.

  6. Architecture decisions, runbooks, environment setup and the reasons behind awkward choices live in your wiki. When someone leaves the squad, the replacement reads rather than interrogates, and the handover costs days.

(What a squad usually brings)

(How we work)

How the work runs

Every engagement is scoped in phases, priced per phase, and reviewed with you at the end of each one.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    We map the problem, the systems around it and what a good outcome looks like, then scope the work in phases you can stop after.

  2. 02

    Design

    Flows, architecture and interfaces agreed before anyone writes production code.

  3. 03

    Build

    Two-week increments, a working environment you can open, and a demo at the end of each one.

  4. 04

    Testing

    Functional, performance, security and accessibility checks run through the build, not bolted on at the end.

  5. 05

    Launch

    Deployment, monitoring, documentation and the handover your team needs to run it.

  6. 06

    Support

    Fixes, updates and the next set of features, at an agreed monthly capacity.

(Why Team of Keys)

How a dedicated offshore team avoids the usual failure modes

Offshore squads fail for reasons that have little to do with talent: shared people, no accountability line, knowledge held in one head, and a contract that punishes you for stopping.

  1. 01

    Assigned, not shared

    People on your squad work on your product only. If someone has to be borrowed for a week, you are asked first, and the time is credited back.

  2. 02

    One accountable lead

    A delivery lead owns the plan, the reporting and the team’s performance. Escalation goes to a named person on our side who is not also writing code on your sprint.

  3. 03

    Continuity managed deliberately

    Pairing, code review and written context mean no single engineer is load-bearing. Planned departures overlap with their replacement; unplanned ones are covered from the bench while the search runs.

  4. 04

    Your tools and your accounts

    The squad works in your repositories, your tracker and your cloud accounts, under your branch and review rules. There is no parallel system on our side holding anything you cannot see.

  5. 05

    An exit you can afford

    30 days notice per person, a handover sprint and a documentation review. Ending the engagement should cost you a month and a checklist, not a rebuild.

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(FAQ)

Questions, answered

Augmentation gives you engineers inside your process; you still run planning, review and delivery. A dedicated team brings its own lead and QA and takes responsibility for getting work from a priority to a release. Pick augmentation when your management capacity is fine and only hands are short; pick a dedicated team when the management is the bottleneck.

Each role bills as a monthly rate, so the team cost is the sum of its seats and is stable across a quarter. Rates vary by seniority and speciality, and a delivery lead is usually part time across a small squad rather than a full seat. You see the composition and the monthly figure before anyone is onboarded.

Common stacks come together faster than scarce ones, and the pacing items are screening, your interviews and onboarding rather than availability alone. Squads usually start with a core two or three people and add roles over the following weeks, which also gives the first sprint a chance to settle before the team grows.

Yes. Reducing needs 30 days notice per person and a handover sprint. Growing needs a few weeks of lead time for screening and interviews. Most clients review the shape quarterly, which keeps changes deliberate instead of reactive, and nothing is added to your bill without a written change.

Documentation is part of the definition of done: architecture decisions, runbooks, environment setup and known quirks live in your wiki as the work happens. Replacements overlap with the outgoing engineer where the departure is planned. The test is simple — a new joiner should be productive by reading, not by asking.

(Global presence)

Nine countries, one studio behind them.

Every project is designed, built and shipped from one studio.
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(Next step)

Describe the product you need a team for

Tell us the stack, the roadmap and how much of the management you want to keep. You get a proposed squad, a monthly figure and the terms in writing.

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