dedicated teams
outsourcing and outstaffing

How to get started on hiring a development team?

As a customer, you should specify your delivery goals and your existing bottlenecks. You can use the basic information mentioned in our form or go further and send us the available open project data so our engineering manager can prepare for facilitation during the first call. We sign an NDA just before the first call, so both parties can already have a roadmap outline and some ready answers after the first call. If you are new to IT but still need a dedicated team, we will help you to complete this task and tailor the solution to your needs. It is not an issue at all, if you don’t know the exact job requirements for a dedicated software development team. We can help you to design a cross-functional project development team and hire dedicated developers.

How long does it take to hire a dedicated development team?

Be ready that every developer needs at least 1 month for termination notice period. We work with every customer individually and hire developers according to job requirements. There are a few aspects which take time: job requisition facilitation/job description development, market research & analysis, search process, selection phase, job offer confirmation and a resignation. Skillers takes care to make any recruitment process faster, conscious and effective. That is why we propose to exclude some phases depending on the situation. Our recruitment strategy also includes Eastern Europe regions, so you can see more candidates in the same time frame than solely from Ukraine. Time to fill position is about 4-6 weeks for every job request before signing an offer.

What is the difference between building a dedicated development team with Skillers and with “a classical outsourcing company”?

We created a transparent pricing system even for hourly rates. Working with Skillers, you will be surrounded by required services and not overloaded by outsourcing routines. Scaling your development team, you will always know what services will be included and how much you need in the next development phase. Starting with one software development team you can easily scale your resourcing into a software development group of projects with our assistance. Our engineering approach was remote-friendly before the COVID-19 pandemic and at the same time we used modern delivery management practices. What we do is that we assist customers in adapting their businesses to the current situation by creating hybrid management models for development teams and in bringing products faster to the market.

How to set up a trial dedicated development team in Ukraine?

To set up a trial IT development team, a customer should have a defined particular scope of work for remote dedicated software developers. We estimate incoming data, provide enhancements and offer a dedicated project team structure with a pricing. Our approach is quite flexible and serves to minimize risks. We offer a small team as a more realistic example of the remote dedicated software team concept. A trial dedicated development team is composed of two or three engineers allocated partially to execute predefined tasks. If you decide to scale to hire a dedicated development team in Ukraine, a special purpose trial development team will help you to accomplish a reasonable work package before launching a full development life cycle of the product, to test different engineering functions such as leader, senior and middle and to define own software development team portrait, e.t.c. Having a special purpose trial development team you will be flexible in means of choosing a collaboration model either within a dedicated team or within recruitment services. Besides, we can cover cases when a customer needs BPO services.

When does the outstaffing model fit my business?

The IT outstaffing model fits those businesses which already have a pre-defined delivery processes managed by CTO or by a group of POs. If a customer requests to hire dedicated developers, to allocate them in a customer’s team and to bind them with some internal engineering roles, but at the same time delegates e.g. payroll and legal management to an outstaff company, then it is commonly called outstaffing services. Skillers can become your outstaff company on the Ukrainian IT market and introduce your company brand to developers from Eastern Europe too.

Outsourcing and outstaffing collaboration models are proven options to connect with the Ukrainian IT branch. The Ukrainian developers became highly experienced within the previous 15 years in building delivery outstaffing processes remotely and by using best Agile practices. So, an outstaffing in Ukraine means much more than the connection with mature development teams because they constantly work with products of the global market and are capable of bringing innovations to your business.