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Fit check
Is Dedicated Development Teams right for you?
An honest view. If another model suits you better, we will tell you on the first call.
A good fit when
You have a roadmap that will run for months
You want engineers who work only on your product
Hiring locally is slow, narrow or expensive
You can give direction and want delivery support around it
Think twice when
You need a one-off fix that takes a few days
Scope is fully fixed and you want a single price
Nobody on your side can set priorities
You need a team that starts today, with no brief
About Dedicated Development Teams
How Dedicated Development Teams works in practice
A dedicated development team is a stable group of engineers, a QA specialist and a delivery lead who work only on your product. This page explains how Speqto assembles and runs these teams, which governance habits keep them accountable, and the situations where a dedicated team is the wrong model. It is written for CTOs and product heads comparing engagement options.
What a dedicated team actually is
The defining feature is exclusivity, not location. The people on your team do not rotate onto other clients, so they build up knowledge of your codebase, your customers and your release habits. You direct the priorities through your own backlog, while Speqto stays responsible for hiring, payroll, equipment, HR and the working environment around those engineers. That continuity is what you are really paying for.
A typical squad has a tech lead, two to five developers split across backend and frontend or mobile, a QA engineer, and a part-time delivery manager who handles reporting and risk. Designers, DevOps or data specialists join when the roadmap needs them. The shape follows your product, not a fixed package. We size it conservatively at the start and add specialists only when the backlog proves the need, which keeps early spend honest and the team small enough to coordinate.
Governance that keeps a long engagement healthy
Long-running teams drift unless there is a rhythm. We run sprint planning and retrospectives with your product owner, hold a demo every week so progress is visible in working software rather than status slides, and keep a shared risk log. Code lives in your repositories from day one, reviewed through pull requests your own engineers can read and comment on. Quality metrics such as review turnaround and escaped defects are shared openly.
Contractually, you receive full IP assignment and we sign an NDA on request. Access is granted per project with least privilege, and offboarding removes it the same day. If you have your own architects, they can sit in design reviews and veto decisions, which is usually how trust gets built in the first quarter. Where the team uses AI coding assistants, the rules on tools and repositories are agreed with you in writing first, and humans review every change before it merges.
Choosing a dedicated team over other models
A dedicated team suits products with a roadmap that will run for at least six months and where context matters more than unit price. If you have a fixed, well-understood scope, a project model may cost less. If you only need two or three people to join your own squad, staff augmentation is simpler. Many clients start with a small pod and grow.
Scaling works in both directions with 30 days notice. Because profiles are shared within about two business days, adding a mobile developer or a data engineer rarely stalls the roadmap. Shrinking is equally plain: we plan the knowledge handover so the remaining engineers are not left with undocumented corners. Because the engineers stay on your product, a handover note is not an afterthought but a living document, and we also keep a secondary owner for each major module so absences do not stall work.
What is included
What you get from the first week
Team design and sizing
We map your roadmap to roles, seniority mix and ramp-up order so you do not pay for a full squad before the backlog needs it.
Engineer sourcing and vetting
Candidates are screened on code review, system design and communication, and you interview the people who will actually join your team.
Delivery management
A named manager runs sprint cadence, dependency tracking, risk logs and reporting so your product owner can focus on priorities.
QA and release engineering
Test automation, CI pipelines and release checklists are built into the squad instead of added late as a separate phase.
Knowledge transfer planning
Architecture notes, runbooks and recorded walkthroughs are kept current so no single engineer becomes a point of failure.
Controlled scaling
Add or remove specialists with 30 days notice while keeping the core team intact and continuity of product knowledge.
How it runs
A typical engagement, step by step
Pick a stage to see what happens. Timings are typical, not promises.
Days 1-2
Share the brief
Roles, stack, hours overlap and how long you need people. A 20-minute call is usually enough.
Days 2-5
Meet matched profiles
You receive vetted profiles with assessment notes and interview the engineers yourself.
Week 1-2
Onboard into your tools
Access, repositories, stand-ups and a first-sprint plan agreed with a named delivery lead.
Every week
Deliver and demo
Working software each week, reports on progress and risks, and direct access to every engineer.
Monthly
Review and adjust
Add or release engineers with 30 days notice as the roadmap changes.
Compare models
How it differs from the other ways to work with us
Dedicated Development Team
Staff Augmentation
Fixed-Scope Projects
Managed Services
Best for
Long-term products & roadmaps
Filling skill gaps fast
MVPs & well-defined builds
Ongoing support & operations
What you get
A full, cross-functional squad (engineers, QA, designer, PM) working only on your product, managed with your processes and tools.
Pre-vetted senior engineers who join your in-house team within days to add capacity or specialist expertise.
A clear scope, timeline and price, delivered in milestones with demos at every stage.
We run and continuously improve your applications, cloud and infrastructure under defined SLAs.
Commercials
Direct access to every team member
Replacement guarantee
Warranty period after launch
Predictable monthly pricing
Outcomes
What you can expect
Retained product context
Engineers stay on one codebase, so estimates sharpen, regressions fall and new features build on decisions already understood.
Predictable weekly progress
Weekly demos and a visible backlog give leadership confidence without requiring daily involvement in engineering detail.
Flexible capacity
You grow or reduce the squad as funding and priorities change, without hiring cycles or severance obligations.
Working rhythm
How you stay in control
Daily stand-up
Short check-in that overlaps with your hours.
Weekly demo
Working software, not slides, every week.
Monthly review
Progress, risks, budget and the next month plan.
Shared board
One backlog and repository you can open anytime.
FAQ
Dedicated Development Teams FAQs
Straight answers on cost, timelines, IP ownership, team setup and how we work. Cannot find yours? Ask a solutions architect directly.
How is a dedicated development team different from staff augmentation?
A dedicated team arrives as a managed unit with a lead, QA and delivery oversight, and Speqto answers for its output. Staff augmentation places individuals inside your management structure, so you carry the coordination. Choose a team when you lack engineering management capacity.
Who manages the dedicated team day to day?
Your product owner sets priorities and accepts work, while the Speqto tech lead and delivery manager handle task breakdown, code quality, reporting and people matters. You can also place your own engineering manager above the team if you prefer closer control.
Can I interview the engineers before they start?
Yes. We share profiles within about two business days, and you can run technical interviews or paired exercises. We would rather lose a candidate at this stage than have a mismatch surface in the third sprint.
What happens to the code and IP at the end?
Full IP assignment is part of the agreement, and work sits in your repositories and cloud accounts from the start. If you end the engagement, we plan a handover period with documentation and walkthroughs so your next team can continue.
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