What is an Offshore Dedicated Team?
An Offshore Dedicated Team (ODT) is a full-time squad of engineers and specialists who work exclusively on your product while based in another country.
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Key Difference: Unlike traditional outsourcing, these teams follow your roadmap, tools, and delivery rhythms as if they were in-house.
A local vendor recruits, employs, and retains the team, while you set priorities and own outcomes.
The result? Long-term capacity that scales without the hiring delays, payroll complexity, and office overhead of building locally.
Think of it as team leasing with control
Your processes, your repositories, your stand-ups—delivered by people who are dedicated to your goals only.
Why Cardiff Businesses Choose ODT Over Traditional Outsourcing
Project-based outsourcing can feel like a black box. You hand off a scope, wait for updates, and hope the final result matches expectations.
An ODT flips that model completely.
4-5 hours
overlap with Cardiff business hours
Cost
reduction 40-50% vs local hiring
You keep day-to-day visibility, manage the backlog, and integrate developers into your sprint rituals.
Because the same people stay on your codebase for months or years, product context compounds, quality improves, and rework falls.
ODT is a better fit for:
- Evolving products
- Platform rewrites
- Multi-quarter roadmaps
- Projects where continuity matters more than a one-off build
Perfect for Cardiff's digital services and media tech sector requirements.
How an ODT Engagement Starts
Getting started with an ODT is surprisingly straightforward.
1
Define Your Needs
Start by writing a crisp capability brief: domain, architecture, tech stack, security needs, and the first 90 days of delivery goals.
2
Review Candidates
A vetted vendor proposes candidates for each role—engineers, QA, DevOps, UX, PM. You interview and approve individuals, just like hiring in-house.
3
Standard Onboarding
Onboarding mirrors your standard playbook: repo access, CI/CD, coding guidelines, incident processes, and meeting cadence.
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You focus on the work: The vendor handles contracts, payroll, equipment, and retention. You lead the work.
Roles You Can Include in Your ODT
An ODT can mirror a full product organisation or start with a single developer.
Core Development
- Full-stack engineers
- Platform engineers
- Mobile developers
- QA automation specialists
Infrastructure & Operations
- DevOps engineers
- Cloud engineers
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Security engineers
Design & Product
- UI/UX designers
- Product managers
- Delivery management
Composition Agility
The advantage is flexibility: begin lean, then add skills precisely when the roadmap requires them.
