ENGAGEMENT MODEL / 03
Dedicated Product Team
A team working in your sprints and your tools, sized up or down as the roadmap demands.
- Minimum term
- 3 months
- Team
- 2–6 senior engineers plus a product lead
- Billing
- Monthly, per person
- Way of working
- Your sprints, your tools
A Dedicated Product Team behaves far more like an in-house team than an outside vendor. They join the same sprint calendar, the same standups, and the same review process, and communication runs directly between engineer and product owner rather than through an account manager.
The roster isn't fixed. If a quarter leans mobile, the team leans that way; if the next one leans data and AI, the mix changes with it. Changes are agreed a month ahead, so a team never dissolves overnight.
Knowledge stays with your company, not with the team. Architecture decisions, runbooks, and the reasoning behind each call are kept in writing, and every quarter closes with a review of what shipped and what was deferred, and why. When an engagement ends, the product is left with the documentation needed to keep running it.
What's included
Senior engineers
Developers who own the product and can defend a technical decision on its merits. No rotation.
A product lead
One point of contact tracking the roadmap, prioritisation, and delivery.
Working inside your process
Your sprints, your repository and project tools, your code review rules.
A flexible roster
The team grows and shrinks with each quarter's needs, planned a month in advance.
Written knowledge transfer
Architecture decisions, runbooks, and the reasoning behind them kept on the record.
Quarterly review
What shipped, where the time went, and what should be prioritised next — in writing.
Who it's for
The right model when
- The product is live and needs continuous development
- The roadmap is planned quarterly and priorities move
- Hiring can't keep pace with what the roadmap needs
- You want lasting capacity alongside your own team
Another model fits better when
- There's a single, well-bounded piece of work
- The budget is allocated to one deliverable
- You're starting from an unvalidated idea
- You're considering less than three months of work
PROCESS
How the partnership starts
FAQ
About Dedicated Product Teams
Yes. The allocated capacity is dedicated to you; engineers aren't split across parallel projects.
Yes, with a month's notice. The monthly review is where we plan the next quarter's roster together.
Directly. Engineers sit in your channels and your meetings — we don't add a project-manager layer in between. One product lead stays your point of contact for the roadmap.
Three months. Below that, onboarding cost outweighs output, so we'd point you at On-Demand Projects instead.
The product and all documentation stay with you. Because architecture decisions and runbooks are written down from the start, the handover isn't a surprise.
Let's build your team together
Walk us through your roadmap and we'll map out which skills you need, when, and how the roster should be shaped.