Dedicated development teams run by Netbase
A dedicated development team is a named, continuing group of Netbase engineers whose roadmap priorities you direct day to day, while Netbase keeps one lead accountable for staffing, continuity, security and delivery governance. It sits alongside fixed-scope project delivery as a second option, not a replacement for it.
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OutsourcingVN is operated by Netbase JSC, which sells fixed-scope contracts agreed after discovery as its default engagement and offers a dedicated team only once a backlog is wide and continuous enough that a single project no longer fits it.
What is a dedicated development team?
A dedicated team is not a staffing list. It is a named, continuing group of engineers whose roadmap priorities you direct day to day, while Netbase keeps one lead accountable for who is on the team, how a departure is covered, security practice and the reporting that keeps the arrangement visible. Netbase also offers dedicated development teams, on-demand support and fully managed delivery as secondary options; most Netbase projects are still agreed as fixed-scope contracts after discovery, and a team is the model to reach for once a backlog is wide and continuous enough that a single project no longer fits it. See every option on the services hub, compare the shape of each engagement on the engagement models page, or scope a bounded release instead through Custom Product Engineering.
Is a dedicated team the right fit?
Good fit
- Your backlog is wide, ongoing and likely to outlast a single release
- You already have, or are hiring, a product owner who can direct the backlog week to week
- You want staffing, continuity and security handled by one accountable operator rather than by your own HR and IT
- The arrangement is expected to run for a year or more
Another route fits better
- The work is one bounded release with a clear end; a fixed-scope project fits better
- Nobody on your side can own day-to-day priorities yet; a fractional CTO retainer or a Netbase-directed project lead may suit better
- You want to hire and manage the people directly yourself, with no intermediary
- The need is short: one skill for one mission suits a specialist sprint instead
If the main uncertainty is what to build rather than who directs it, the project outsourcing versus staff augmentation comparison is worth reading before committing to a standing team.
Who is on the team, and who directs it?
Netbase project teams typically range from 3 to 30 people combining business analysis, project management, solution architecture, development, QA and UI/UX. For a dedicated team the same roles are assembled against your roadmap rather than a single release, and project teams draw on business analysis, project management, solution architecture, development, QA and UI/UX roles as the backlog needs them.
What you direct:
- the backlog order and priorities, week to week;
- which features or fixes ship next, and how they are accepted;
- the product outcome the team is working toward.
What Netbase owns:
- who is on the team, and how a departure or a skill gap is covered;
- security practice, access control and the NDA each contributor signs;
- the weekly reporting and named point of contact that keep the arrangement visible, covered in full by remote software delivery governance.
Netbase delivery communication is in English, and Netbase delivery runs with weekly reviews and a named project manager, so the same reporting rhythm applies whether the team is running one release or a continuing backlog.
How a dedicated team starts and runs
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Define the backlog and the split
Agree what you will direct day to day and what Netbase owns before anyone is assigned, so staffing and governance decisions do not surface mid-engagement.
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Staff the named roles
Netbase assigns the roles the backlog needs, under NDA and role-based access, with a named lead on each side.
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Run a trial period
A bounded first phase with written acceptance criteria, so fit is proven before the arrangement is treated as standing.
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Operate on a weekly cadence
Reporting, access review and backlog planning run on an agreed rhythm; time-zone collaboration in Vietnam sets out how the overlap window is designed so the cadence does not drift out of sync.
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Review, extend or exit
Renew for an agreed further period, scale the team to the backlog, or close it out with a planned handover; nothing here defaults to continuing by itself.
Where AI changes a dedicated team's work
A standing team is also where AI-assisted engineering compounds: the same people keep refining how model, agent and retrieval capability is combined into delivery across releases, rather than relearning it on every new project. Netbase engineers use AI tools, chosen per project from commercial and open-source options, to draft code, generate test cases, review changes and write documentation, with every change reviewed and owned by a named engineer. Where your own in-house team wants the same capability without standing up a separate dedicated team, AI engineering enablement is the service that coaches them directly instead.
Governance, security and continuity
Security practice does not change for a standing team: secure code review and version control, role-based access control, multi-factor authentication for admin dashboards, contributors under NDA, and NDAs and data processing agreements on request. Running continuously rather than for one project's duration makes the access register and its review cadence more important, not less.
For custom development, the client owns the intellectual property created for it; Netbase's own productized modules are licensed rather than transferred, and a dedicated team should name any of those it relies on before the first sprint. The Hanoi office works Monday to Saturday, 9:00 to 18:15 Vietnam time (UTC+7), and support coverage follows those days; a standing team's cadence sits inside that window unless a wider one is agreed and written down.
Continuity is written in, not assumed: a named lead owns what happens if a team member leaves, and the exit or transfer terms are agreed before the team is relied on for anything critical, in the same way the offshore development centre guide sets out for a longer-running, Netbase-governed centre.
Worked scenario: scaling a product roadmap with a named team
A Series A SaaS company has shipped its first release through a fixed-scope project and now has a backlog that keeps growing: new modules, integrations and fixes requested by paying customers every week. Hiring an in-house team fast enough to keep pace is not realistic inside the runway available, and the backlog is too continuous to scope as a single next project.
The company moves to a dedicated team: the same roles that built the first release, including development, QA and a solution architect, continue under a named Netbase lead, while the company's own product manager orders the backlog each week. Three months in, one engineer rotates off and Netbase covers the gap without the company managing the hire; a year in, a scope review confirms the backlog is still wide enough to justify the arrangement, and it continues for another agreed period.
Which model fits: a dedicated team, a project or a centre?
A dedicated team is one of several ways to add capacity, and the right comparison depends on how long the need runs and who should direct it day to day.
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Custom Product Engineering, Netbase's fixed-scope default
One bounded release with a clear acceptance point
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Staff augmentation, compared against project delivery on project outsourcing versus staff augmentation
Extra engineering hands you manage yourself, with no Netbase governance layer
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In-house versus outsourced development
Building the capability inside your own organisation instead of buying it
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The offshore development centre guide
A standing team with its own governance structure, set up to run for years and possibly transfer to you
A dedicated team sits between these: closer to a project than to a centre in scale, but continuing rather than bounded, and under lighter governance machinery than a full offshore development centre needs.
Evidence: Netbase as a standing delivery partner
Since 2020, Netbase has worked as offshore development and managing partner on a multi-tenant cloud ERP SaaS platform for a US client that is not named, rather than as a single delivered release. Phase one, running from 2020 to 2023 for agency SMEs, covered CRM, real-time messaging, HR, a knowledge base, custom fields and workflows, work and project management, and API integrations. The relationship continued past a single milestone because the backlog kept growing, which is the shape a dedicated team is for. The multi-tenant cloud ERP record has the delivered scope; it is the closest published example of this shape.
Netbase's Clutch profile carries client reviews from businesses in Romania, Spain, Sweden, France, Denmark, the Netherlands and Belgium.
This record covers phase-one scope for agency SMEs; the client and product are not named, and no usage or business result is claimed.
Keep ReadingQuestions to ask before committing to a team
- Who, named, decides what the team builds next?
- You, through the backlog, not a Netbase account manager
- Who covers a departure or a skill gap?
- A named Netbase lead with a stated covering plan
- What is the minimum term before either side can exit?
- A written term and an exit or transfer process
- How is security and access reviewed on a standing team?
- A named cadence, not a one-off project setup
- What changes if the backlog shrinks back to a single project?
- A route back to fixed-scope delivery without penalty
What goes wrong with dedicated teams
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No named covering plan
Signal: a departure stalls the backlog with nobody assigned to fill the gap. Owner: the Netbase lead, who should name a covering plan before the team starts, not after someone resigns.
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The backlog never gets prioritised
Signal: the team is idle waiting on direction. Owner: your product owner, who should treat weekly prioritisation as a standing responsibility, not an occasional task.
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Governance drifts to a single project's level
Signal: nobody can say what security review or access check last happened. Owner: both leads, who should run the review cadence set at the start.
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Adding people before the trial period has proved anything
Signal: a second or third hire joins the team while the first milestone is still unaccepted. Owner: the sponsoring executive, who should wait for the trial's written acceptance criteria to pass before approving any growth in headcount.
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Treating the team as a substitute for project delivery
Signal: a single bounded release is run through a standing team with no acceptance point. Owner: the product owner, who should scope it as a project instead when the work has a clear end.
Frequently asked questions
Not quite. Staff augmentation puts people under your daily management with no Netbase governance layer; a dedicated team is named and continuing, and Netbase still owns staffing, security and continuity even though you direct the backlog.
No. Project delivery stays Netbase's default engagement; a dedicated team is a secondary option for backlogs too wide and continuous to scope as one project.
The trial period and the agreed term are set per engagement, and either side can trigger a review or an exit at the point agreed in writing.
The named Netbase lead covers the gap under the continuity plan agreed at setup; the arrangement does not stall on one person's availability.
It can, if the backlog grows into standing, multi-year work with its own governance; the offshore development centre guide covers what changes at that scale.
Netbase project teams typically range from 3 to 30 people combining the roles a backlog needs; the size of a dedicated team follows the backlog it serves.
Ready to scope the team?
Bring the backlog you expect to keep growing, who on your side will direct it, and the term you are considering. Submit a project and describe the standing work; a person will reply with whether a dedicated team, a project or an offshore development centre fits it better. OutsourcingVN is Netbase's own outsourcing-services platform.