Recruiting, training and maintaining your in-house team can make your project a real financial puzzle, not to mention relocating your efforts and distracting from your core business activities and development specialization.

At Altabel Group we can offer a very transparent, flexible and easily scalable approach to expand your team and deal with more projects. This is Dedicated Development Team model. Dedicated Development Team can be an integrated extension of your in-house team or a unit dedicated to specific projects in new or non-core areas for you.

DDT creation steps are simple:

• Based on analysis of your project requirements and specifics, we pick candidates from our resources pool of software professionals and send their CVs to you,
• Upon request, we arrange interviews with the preselected candidates,
• Simultaneously we start negotiating agreement terms and conditions,
• You select and approve candidates and we set a team for you,
• Agreement is signed and the work is initiated.

DDT operation is organized as flexibly as possible:

• Pre-development activities: knowledge sharing (process/ standards/ tools), customer's practices adoption, infrastructure setup,
• Responsibilities and tasks are distributed among the team members,
• Team members are engaged exclusively on your project, they cannot be assigned to another tasks,
• Developers can work either by your or our management,
• Project development progress can be monitored daily, developers are available on chat and e-mail 8 hrs a day Monday-Friday,
• Operations are reviewed and can be adjusted if necessary,
• Team structure can be revised if necessary (increasing/ decreasing the team size, replacement, adding experts with specific skills on an ad hoc basis),
• Weekly development reports are provided to you,
• Contracts are paid on a monthly basis.

Altabel dedicated development teams are characterized with:

• Transparency & control - Every team member is selected by you, reported to you and managed by you.
• Business seamlessness - Team members are constantly in close communication with your company stuff, follow your development methodology, share collaborative work tools.
• Flexibility and scalability - You can change the team size and profile if necessary.
• Cost-effectiveness - Saving of production and overhead costs, office and equipment rent and maintenance, dismissal payments, etc.

Dedicated Development model may suit your company's needs and projects in various situations, not limited to a classic vision of Dedicated Development Team.

Our practice shows DDTs may also look like this:

• mixed DDT: team consists of specialists skilled in different technologies, for instance, JAVA team plus mobile specialists,
• floating DDT: team size varies depending on the project needs, for example, core team of .NET/iPhone/Android/Symbian developers can be periodically extended with testers for testing web UI and mobile clients on demand,
• core team + highly-specialized experts: a highly specialized expert can be engaged in the project on demand to help solving a particular highly specialized task, for instance, assisting key .Net team in dealing with Visual Basic stuff,
• small size DDT: DDT is not necessarily something large, it can consist of 2-3 developers. This suits start-ups as well as for large companies when agile approach is applied to work on a specific project. Additionally, recently projects have become smaller in size themselves: large systems are already developed, mobile applications which are popular nowadays do not require much development efforts, so there's much need for customers to request for crowded dedicated teams.
• quick DDT: we can form a team for you upon quite a short notice, for instance, within 1-2 weeks, possibly with engagement of resources from our software development partners.
• one-project-purpose DDT: DDT can be chosen instead of a Fixed price model when it's more comfortable in terms of development methodology and approach. In this case the team is set up for the purpose of a particular project for a duration limited by the project needs, for example, 2-4 months.

Contact us today with your request/project details and we will be happy to come back to you with our proposal. To see some of our case studies go to ...

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