IT outsourcing
Software development
Product and project teams for web, mobile and backend applications, working inside your processes.
What is delivered
A team with defined roles, not a loose set of developers
Work in your repository, your board and your cadence
Documented knowledge transfer from the first month
What distinguishes a dedicated team from a fixed-scope project?
The responsibility model. In a fixed-scope project the scope is defined upfront and any change is a negotiation; with a dedicated team the priority is yours and changes when you need it to. For an evolving product the second model is almost always correct and the first produces one contractual argument a month.
The practical consequence is that a dedicated team requires something from you that a fixed-scope project does not: someone with authority to prioritise. Without that person, the team works well on things nobody decided were the most important, and that is discovered a quarter later.
Where the scope is genuinely fixed and well understood, the fixed-price project is the honest model and we propose it. Selling a dedicated team for work that fits a project is selling more than is needed, and selling a fixed project for an evolving product is selling a renegotiation.
How does the team integrate into your process?
With your tools, your code review standards and your acceptance criteria from day one. An external team with its own process diverges technically within months, and reconverging costs more than the divergence saved.
With mandatory cross-review in both directions. If the external team's code is always reviewed by yours and never the reverse, an implicit hierarchy forms that harms the quality of both, and the external team stops proposing improvements because it has learned that is not its role.
And with access to product context: user requests, incident reports and usage metrics. A team receiving only specifications takes worse technical decisions than one that sees the effect of what it builds, and the difference shows first in the quality of the questions it asks.
Where can the team sit?
In Portugal, with full working-hours overlap with Europe and data residency inside the European Economic Area, which removes an entire layer of compliance work. It is the default model where the work touches production data or requires frequent contact with European users.
In Poland, around twenty-two per cent below Lisbon in loaded cost, still inside the European Economic Area, and with more depth in some very specific profiles. For German or central European volume it is the right market and we say so.
In Uzbekistan, sixty to seventy per cent below Lisbon, with half a day of overlap and no adequacy decision. It works for engineering with a European coordination layer and development environments without production data, and does not work for conversational work with users.
How is production data access protected?
By design before it is by policy. Development and test environments run on synthetic or anonymised data, and for most engineering work that is sufficient. Where it is sufficient, the international transfer question practically disappears.
The point to watch is emergency access. Many operations keep production data out of reach by design and then open an exception to diagnose an incident at two in the morning. If that exception is not anticipated, logged and time-limited, the architecture exists only on paper.
Where production access is genuinely necessary and the team sits outside the European Economic Area, the full framework applies: standard contractual clauses, impact assessment, and supplementary measures with key management kept in Europe. It is weeks of work and it is a condition of the project rather than a cost of it.
How is progress measured?
By work delivered to production rather than by hours billed or points estimated. Hours measure effort rather than outcome; points measure estimation and inflate on their own when they become the target. What matters is what is working for real users.
We add cycle time, from the decision to build until it is in production, and reversion rate. Rising delivery with rising reversions is not speed but debt being taken on, and the two numbers side by side show that before the technical balance sheet does.
And a quarterly review that can conclude the design is wrong. Many contracts have enough governance to manage execution and none to question the decision, and they end with teams meeting indicators for years without ever asking whether they are the right model.
How long does it take to stand up the team?
In Portugal, six to ten weeks for a small team through a supplier who employs the people: two to three recruiting, one on hiring and setup, and two to three integrating before contributing autonomously.
Integration is the most underestimated phase. A competent engineer in an unfamiliar codebase needs weeks to become productive, and compressing that produces contributions your team then reviews slowly, which cancels the added capacity for longer than the integration would have cost.
Growing is faster than starting, provided documentation was written during the start. Teams that onboarded the first person verbally repeat the full cost with every subsequent person, and discover it at the fourth.
What documentation stays with us and what stays with you?
All technical documentation is yours and lives in your repository from day one, not in a system of ours handed over at the end. It is the difference between a deliverable and a dependency, and it is a choice made at the start because it cannot be corrected later without cost.
We keep only what is ours as an employer: recruitment, training and performance records for the team's people. Everything describing your product, your code and the decisions taken about them is yours and is accessible for the life of the contract and after it ends.
Where software development can be run from
Not every delivery model suits every service. The table shows only those that make sense for this work, with the data residency position of each.
| Model | Where | When it makes sense | Personal data |
|---|---|---|---|
| Onshore Portugal | Lisbon, Porto, Braga, Coimbra, Aveiro, Faro, Funchal and Ponta Delgada | When data cannot leave the EEA, or when the end customer is Portuguese | Stay inside the EEA. No transfer. |
| Nearshore in Portugal | Lisbon and Porto, for foreign buyers | When you need a multilingual European base without incorporating | Stay inside the EEA. No transfer. |
| Global network | Uzbekistan, the Philippines, Poland, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Colombia, Turkiye and Africa | When you need continuous cover, specific languages or the lowest cost | Poland is inside the EEA. The others require standard contractual clauses. |
The data column describes the applicable framework and is not legal advice. The detail is in international data transfers.
Related services
- Managed servicesOngoing management of applications and infrastructure, with SLAs, monitoring and continuous improvement.
- Cloud and DevOpsMigration, delivery automation, infrastructure as code and cloud cost control.
- CybersecurityMonitoring, incident response, vulnerability management and compliance support.
- HelpdeskIT support for employees, by ticket, phone and on site, in Portuguese and English.
Frequently asked questions
Do you work inside our process?
With your tools, review standards and acceptance criteria from day one. A team with its own process diverges within months.
Which technologies do you cover?
Conventional back end, front end and mobile stacks, plus databases and integration. We say when a profile is scarce rather than promising it.
Does the team access production data?
Preferably not. Development environments with synthetic or anonymised data cover most of the work.
Dedicated team or fixed-scope project?
Dedicated for an evolving product; fixed project where the scope is genuinely closed. We propose what matches the work.
How do you measure progress?
By work in production, cycle time and reversion rate. Hours measure effort and points inflate when they become the target.
How long until the team is productive?
Six to ten weeks to stand up, with two to three of those integrating into the codebase.
Can we grow the team later?
You can, and growing is faster than starting provided documentation was written during the start.
What happens at the end of the contract?
We hand over code, documentation and knowledge in an agreed format, and the timeline and cost are in the proposal rather than left to negotiate.
Let us look at the numbers for your case
Tell us which processes you want to outsource, in which languages and at what volume. We come back with a euro estimate and an operating design, with no commitment.
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