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Dedicated Dev Teams

Dedicated Dev Teams

Senior engineers who own outcomes, not ticket queues.

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What this engagement actually is

A cross-functional team embedded into your organisation, owning a product domain end to end including its on-call. Not staff augmentation: the unit is a team with an outcome, a named client counterpart and a knowledge-transfer target written into the contract.

What you end up with

  • A team that is productive in weeks, not quarters
  • Your engineers stronger at the end than at the start
  • On-call and incident ownership shared, with response targets in the contract
  • Thirty-day flexibility in both directions, with no long lock-in

Capabilities

What Dedicated Dev Teams covers

Each of these is staffed by people who have shipped it before. If a capability below is not relevant to your problem, we will take it out of the scope and the price.

  • Cross-functional squads

    Engineering, architecture and delivery leadership in one team, sized between three and nine people, with a tech lead accountable for the domain rather than for utilisation.

  • Domain ownership

    The team owns at least one deployable unit outright, including its on-call rotation, its architecture decisions and the consequences of them.

  • Time zone design

    A minimum of four overlapping hours with your team and an asynchronous working agreement - written decisions, context-rich pull requests, a daily written handover at the end of the overlap.

  • Knowledge transfer as a deliverable

    Bus-factor targets per service, scheduled pairing with your engineers, and documentation reviewed like code - used in a real incident before we roll off, not filed afterwards.

  • Honest technical counsel

    Engineers expected to push back in writing, with an alternative, on requirements that will not survive production. It is the reason to hire senior people.

Delivery process

How the work runs, phase by phase

Dates, deliverables and exit criteria per phase. Nothing here is a placeholder. This is the plan we put in the statement of work.

  1. 01

    Shape the team

    One to two weeks. We agree the domain, the ownership boundary, the success measures and the seniority mix, then name the engineers. You interview them.

  2. 02

    Onboard on real work

    First sprint is production access, observability access and a real change shipped to production - usually something in the delivery pipeline that everyone has been meaning to fix.

  3. 03

    Take ownership

    The team assumes the on-call rotation and architectural responsibility for its domain, with the client counterpart available for product decisions within a day.

  4. 04

    Deliver and transfer

    Two-week iterations with working software, scheduled pairing with your engineers, and runbooks and architecture decision records produced as the work happens.

  5. 05

    Scale or exit cleanly

    Thirty days notice in either direction. Exit means a fortnight of overlap where your engineers lead and ours support, against a bus-factor target agreed at the start.

Technology

The stack we bring to this work

Defaults, not dogma. If your organisation is standardised on something adjacent, we will work in it and tell you honestly where it will cost you.

  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Go
  • Python
  • Java
  • PostgreSQL
  • Kafka
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • GitHub Actions

Questions

Dedicated Dev Teams: the questions we get asked first

The answers we would give you on a call, written down. More at the full FAQ page.

All FAQs

Staff augmentation gives you individuals who consume a backlog. A dedicated dev team owns a domain and its outcomes, brings its own architecture and delivery leadership, and is measured on what the domain achieves rather than on hours logged.

Yes. You interview every proposed team member and can decline anyone without explanation. We propose people who already have relevant domain context wherever possible, and we would rather delay a start by two weeks than staff it with whoever is free.

Six months, with thirty days notice thereafter. Below six months the ramp-up cost outweighs the value for both sides, and we will suggest a project engagement instead.

One engineering office, in Lahore, Pakistan. Every engineer sits in the same room, which is why handover between them costs nothing. Our working day gives you roughly four hours of live overlap with European hours and the start of the US East Coast day, and we publish the on-call rota so you always know who is reachable. We will also tell you up front about any data residency implications for your compliance regime.

Related services

What teams usually pair this with

Most engagements start in one service line and end up spanning two. Here is the rest of the catalogue.

Dedicated Dev Teams

Ready to talk about dedicated dev teams?

Tell us the system, the constraint and the deadline. You will get a written response from an architect within one business day, and an honest answer about whether we are the right firm for it.

Direct line:moeed@moreinns.com

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