Dedicated Team
A dedicated team is a group of professionals who work exclusively for one client on a full-time basis, as opposed to shared or project-based resources. The model favours continuity, deeper product knowledge, and stronger retention over transactional staffing.
A dedicated team is an offshore engagement model where a provider assembles and manages a full team of developers, QA engineers, and other specialists who work exclusively for one client, embedded in that client's workflow and processes, while the provider retains the employer relationship (payroll, HR, benefits). This differs from staff augmentation, which adds individual contractors to an existing team rather than assembling a self-contained team unit.
Dedicated teams are typically priced on a monthly retainer per team member, which makes costs predictable and easy to build into annual planning, unlike staff augmentation's variable per-day pricing. A well-structured dedicated team provider can typically place a pre-vetted team in 2-4 weeks. This model is best suited for ongoing, long-term product delivery rather than short-term capacity gaps.