Dedicated Development Teams
Full-time developers who learn your SaaS platform and stay with it, with the senior leadership to keep development organized.
A dedicated development team is a group of full-time developers who work on your platform as part of your team, for as long as you need them. It’s the model most people know as staff augmentation, with one big difference: a PALADEM team comes with the executive oversight to keep development organized. You get the developers, plus someone accountable for how the work gets done.
PALADEM builds dedicated teams for growing SaaS companies, software businesses, and companies whose operations run on a custom platform. US-based architects lead the work, developers come from PALADEM’s US and global delivery team, and every engagement is guided by the Software Stewardship Framework™.
When a Dedicated Team Makes Sense
Most of the companies that need a dedicated team are dealing with one of two problems.
Your development team is buried.
- Integrations, maintenance, and support tickets eat the time that should go to the product.
- Features your customers are asking for keep slipping to next quarter.
- Hiring good developers takes months, and contractors come and go before they learn your platform.
You’ve lost confidence in how it’s being built.
- Security issues keep coming up and nobody can tell you why.
- Releases break things, and there’s no real change management or review process.
- Your development costs keep growing, and you can’t see what you’re getting for the money.
If either one sounds familiar, let’s talk.
Staff Augmentation, With Leadership Built In
Staff augmentation firms send developers and leave the managing to you. Process, code quality, security, and change management are still your problem, and if nobody on your side is watching closely, nobody is watching at all. Fractional executives have the opposite gap: they give you direction, then leave you to find and manage the people who do the work.
A PALADEM dedicated team closes both gaps. The same relationship gives you developers who learn your platform and stay with it, plus senior technology leadership that sets the standards, watches the risks, and reports to your leadership team. One accountable partner instead of a vendor you have to manage.
What Your Team Takes On
Integrations and Connectors
The steady stream of partner, carrier, payment, and data integrations that a growing SaaS platform depends on. It’s repetitive and urgent, and it’s exactly the work that keeps pulling your own developers off the roadmap.
Maintenance, Support, and Bug Fixes
The tickets, fixes, and upgrades that never stop. A dedicated team keeps them moving so your platform stays healthy and your customers stay happy.
Core Feature Development
As the team learns your platform, it takes on more of the roadmap, working alongside your developers or carrying features end to end.
AI Features
Customers expect AI. We help you decide which AI features are worth building using five questions (value, fit, risk, operability, and trust), then build them with the guardrails and monitoring they need. More on our AI development and automation page.
Modernization
Incremental modernization of older code and frameworks, one piece at a time, while the platform keeps running and earning.
What the Leadership Includes
Change Management and Release Practices
Every change is tracked, reviewed, tested, and released on purpose, so releases stop breaking production.
Code Review Standards
Consistent review standards across your developers and ours, so quality doesn’t depend on who wrote the code.
Security Oversight
Access control, secure development practices, and attention to the data your platform handles, owned by someone instead of no one.
Policies and Procedures
The development policies your platform needs as it grows, written so your team will actually read and follow them.
Reporting and Accountability
Clear reporting to your leadership team on what the team is working on, what’s shipping, and where the risks are.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is a PALADEM dedicated team different from staff augmentation?
Staff augmentation firms send developers and bill the hours. Managing them, setting standards, reviewing their code, and keeping releases safe is still your job. A PALADEM dedicated team comes with senior executive oversight built in: change management, code review standards, release practices, security oversight, and reporting to your leadership. You get the developers and someone accountable for how the work is done.
Who leads the team?
Every engagement is overseen by PALADEM leadership, guided by the Software Stewardship Framework, with US-based architects leading the work and developers from PALADEM’s US and global delivery team.
Can a PALADEM team work alongside our own developers?
Yes, and that is often the best setup. A common pattern is for the PALADEM team to take on the integration, maintenance, and support work that keeps pulling your developers away, so your own people can focus on the product. The team can also contribute to core feature development as it learns your platform.
How long do dedicated team engagements last?
Dedicated teams are built to be ongoing. The value grows as developers learn your platform, your customers, and your way of working, so engagements are designed to run indefinitely and scale up or down as your needs change, rather than end when a single project ships.
Do you have developers for older platforms like ColdFusion?
Yes. PALADEM does a lot of ColdFusion work and also covers modern stacks, including Angular, React, Node.js, .NET, Java, Python, PHP, and the major databases. Platforms that are hard to hire for are a common reason companies look for a dedicated team in the first place. See our ColdFusion consulting and development experts page for more.
Need a development team, and someone to lead it?
Start with a 45-minute discovery conversation. We’ll learn how your platform is built and run today, where your team is stretched, and what you need next, then scope a dedicated team and leadership engagement that fits.