How is a dedicated team different from project outsourcing?

Project outsourcing delivers a defined scope, often at a fixed price, and the engagement ends at handover. A dedicated team is an ongoing capacity commitment: the scope changes month to month and the team keeps building the product for as long as the engagement runs.

Who owns the code a dedicated team writes?

Ownership is set by the contract, and the standard arrangement is that intellectual property transfers to the client. The agreement should say so explicitly and require the code to live in repositories the client controls.

Outsourcing & Engagement Models

Dedicated Development Team

A dedicated development team is an engagement model in which a vendor assigns a full-time team of engineers, and usually QA and project management, to work only on one client's product over a long period. The client sets goals and priorities, while the vendor runs the team and is responsible for delivery.

The model suits products with ongoing, evolving scope: a SaaS platform with a roadmap, a mobile app that ships every few weeks, or a modernisation programme that runs for a year. Because the same people stay on the product, knowledge of the codebase and the business builds up instead of being lost between projects.

Billing is normally a monthly fee per team member, which makes cost predictable while scope stays flexible. The client still needs a product owner who decides what matters next; the vendor provides the engineering capacity, the delivery process and the people management.

Exclusive team

Engineers work on one client's product only, not shared across accounts.

Long-term

Built for months or years of continuous development rather than a single release.

Vendor-run delivery

The provider manages the team, process and staffing; the client steers priorities.

Predictable cost

A monthly rate per role, with team size adjusted as the roadmap changes.

Codazz builds this in production — Dedicated Development Team.