Dedicated development team services

In order to create an online service or a digital business solution, qualified specialists are needed – programmers, designers, software testers, marketers, and copywriters. They can be hired as full-time employees or you can work with individual specialists remotely – in the format of IT outsourcing. However, each of these options has its drawbacks, and the search for a dedicated development team can be a universal solution.

An important advantage of remote cooperation with software developers in the format of IT outsourcing is that you shouldn’t worry about the mandatory workload for staff on projects.

It takes from 3 to 12 months is required. to create and implement a digital solution for the needs of a business organization or government agency.

After the project is completed, the development team needs to set a new task or break off cooperation. Hiring people for a limited period of time is illogical, and therefore the IT market for developers around the world involves a remote format.

However you need to understand that specialists in various fields take part in the development of software. They show the greatest efficiency if they are physically in the same space and know each other well. Therefore, many market participants prefer not individual hiring of programmers or designers in the format of IT outsourcing, but remote work with a dedicated team of programmers.

Depending on the complexity of the task or project, the team of programmers may have a different composition. In addition, in the event of a change in the terms or wishes of the customer, the composition of the development team can be scaled up by adding or removing from certain participants or changing the load level of individual specialists.

A dedicated development team may include the following specialists.

• A project manager is an administrator who can build effective communication between a customer and a team of programmers. The main load of the project manager is at the start of the development phase, during the preparation of the technical specifications and prototyping of the digital solution. After that, administrative functions can be transferred to the lead developer – team lead. The project manager will switch to other tasks.
• Timlid (TeamLead) – lead developer. This is also a specialist responsible for administrative work, however his main area of ​​responsibility is not external communication, but the management of a team of developers. In most digital projects with simple logic and architecture, the team leader and project manager are one person.
• The back-end developer is responsible for writing code and creating the server side of the software. He is fully involved in the project from the stage of drafting the technical specifications to the final release.
• Front-end developer is the second key developer responsible for creating custom parts of digital services. His workload in the team of programmers is also 100%.

• A mobile programmer with a 100% load is involved in cases where a digital solution needs to be adapted for mobile operating systems iOS and Android.
• A designer, unlike programmers, is not a developer, but in any case, he is a member of the development team. His task is to create a user- and functional design of the graphical interface in the early stages of project development. Designer workload usually does not exceed 50% of the time allocated to the entire project.
• A tester (QA) is also a part-time specialist who joins the team to test the quality of digital services in the second half of the software development cycle.
• Marketer – is not directly responsible for creating a digital service, but many customers hire a specialist in the field of IT marketing to promote a new service.
• A copywriter or technical writer is responsible for filling the project with content and preparing technical documentation, for example in the form of software manuals. Like a marketer, this specialist is not part of the development team, but its workload on the project can range from 50% to 100% of the total development cycle time.
• The system administrator (DevOps) leads several projects at once and is a member of many development teams. His duty is to ensure security, data backup and server uptime.

It is important to understand that to obtain a result which most fully meets the goals, the customer can participate in the creation of the software to some extent and even become a member of the development team for a while. The solution to all problematic issues will be most effective if there is high-quality feedback from the customer.

For work, we use modern solutions that facilitate remote work, namely:

• Teamwork project management system;
• Jira’s bug tracking and project management system;
• Confluence Collaboration Wiki Web;
• service for hosting and co-development of Bitbucket projects.

Through these services, development team members, including the customer, can remotely connect to a digital project at any time and get to know what stage of the software creation cycle is it at. If necessary, you can immediately join in the discussion of controversial issues.

Using services to control remote work, as well as an understandable and transparent mode of working on a digital project in the sprint format – segments of several weeks with clear tasks – allows us to use working time only to solve the tasks, without unnecessary discussions and unnecessary preparatory work. The maximum time allocated to the project is up to 40 working hours per week for each specialist.

Working with our development team is convenient because the customer should not be afraid of possible problems of employee’s individual nature.

All managers, programmers and designers in our development team are interchangeable and individual force majeure situations do not affect the timing and quality of a digital project development.

Avada Media is ready to provide a proven team of programmers to create high-quality digital projects. We have successful experience in the development and implementation of digital resources in a variety of areas – from real estate, construction and repair to online training, tourism and entertainment. Also including financial and commercial projects on medicine, interior decoration, clothing, accessories and much more. You will not need to worry about the compatibility and mutual understanding of IT-specialists, since a considerable portfolio of completed orders has already enabled us to establish an effective model for working in a team.