Dedicated Engineering Teams

A Dedicated Engineering Team is a stable external team assigned primarily or fully to your product, platform or transformation program.
Instead of requesting individual people when a vacancy appears, you establish a team that stays with the same technology area and builds knowledge over time.
The team normally works closely with your product and engineering leadership and can become a long-term extension of the internal organization.

Staff Augmentation adds individual specialists to positions inside your existing team structure.
Dedicated Engineering Teams provide a stable group of engineers working together around the same product or technology area.
If you need one DevOps engineer for six months, Staff Augmentation may be enough.
If you need a continuing group of engineers who should learn the same systems, roadmap and ways of working, a Dedicated Engineering Team is usually a better model.

The difference is mainly delivery leadership and accountability.
With a Dedicated Engineering Team, your organization normally retains stronger ownership of the backlog, priorities and delivery direction. Nubes provides the stable team and can support technical leadership, but the team operates as an extension of your organization.
With a Managed Delivery Team, Nubes takes more responsibility for technical planning, team coordination and delivery outcomes.
In simple terms:
Dedicated Team: the team is yours to direct.
Managed Delivery Team: you delegate the workstream and we manage its delivery.

The composition depends on the work.
A team can include roles such as software engineers, cloud engineers, DevOps engineers, SREs, platform engineers, infrastructure specialists, QA engineers, architects or technical leads.
We prefer to build the team around the product and technical responsibilities rather than start with a fixed junior/middle/senior pyramid.
The mix can also change as the system moves from initial build toward scaling, modernization or production operations.

There is no fixed minimum, but this model creates more value when the work continues long enough for the team to build meaningful context.
McKinsey’s research notes that persistent teams staying together for three to six months or more, with members fully dedicated rather than context switching, become more consistent in estimates, velocity and throughput.
For important platforms and products, the relationship can continue considerably longer.

Yes.
This is often the best model.
The Nubes team can join your planning, repositories, communication channels, CI/CD processes, architecture practices and engineering ceremonies.
We aim to avoid a separate “client versus vendor” delivery model where work has to pass through long specification and handover chains.
DORA’s research supports team structures where engineers can deliver with fewer cross-team handoffs and dependencies because this makes continuous delivery easier.

Normally, the client does.
Your product or technology leadership defines the business direction, roadmap and priorities.
The dedicated team contributes engineering capacity, technical knowledge and implementation experience and can challenge priorities or architecture where useful.
This is one of the important differences from a fully managed delivery model.

The team can evolve.
For example, an early modernization phase may need stronger architecture and infrastructure skills. Later, the same area may need more application engineering, SRE or platform capability.
We can adjust specialist roles while preserving a stable core wherever possible.
This is preferable to replacing the entire team whenever the technical phase changes, because continuity of system knowledge remains valuable throughout the lifecycle.