Team as a Service (TaaS) is where you engage us to provide a dedicated team, partial team or fractional specialist to help you deliver your software products.
It’s an ongoing relationship that can provide enormous benefits throughout its life cycle. TaaS allows you to utilise continuous skills and support to keep your software strategy and product delivery process running smoothly.
It can include anything from building new software from the ground up, to monitoring and maintaining existing platforms, integrating with client systems or accessing specialist skills on an ad hoc basis.
You will work with one of our established teams, where team members have been working together for years. There’s no hiring trial-and-error process, because the collaboration, team building, tools, systems, and processes have already been ironed out. With TaaS, the learning curve is simply getting up to speed on your business objectives and specific requirements.
When we first engage with you, our aim and core focus is on building trust between both our teams and your business. This usually begins with a series of discovery, scoping and planning workshops, where we get to know your team, your business, and the needs that brought you to partnering with us.
The workshops are designed to unpack challenges, reflect them back, and ensure that everyone is aligned. This process allows us to understand the gaps you currently have and what kind of a team would best suit your specific needs.
For businesses that already have internal product delivery capability, TaaS is a perfect option to quickly add additional capacity to an existing team with existing delivery processes.
For businesses with only a partial team on a tight budget it is a perfect way to access experienced team leaders on a part-time (fractional) basis to guide and direct the day-to-day product delivery processes.
You might need many resources to make your team run effectively, but only on a fractional basis:
You can leverage TaaS in a multitude of ways. Your contracted team and the services they’ll perform are calibrated to meet your specific needs and objectives.
Typically this information is gathered during the Scoping and Discovery phase and throughout the engagement as roadmaps and projects are delivered.
You might need a full-time effort for a period of time or just for a short development cycle or sprint. You might need niche healthcare, finance or architecture skill sets or simply a few additional hands on deck to get the job done faster. No matter your needs, your resources will always operate as an extension of your own team.
No business or team has every single skillset it needs for every project it faces. TaaS was born out of the need for businesses to quickly access specialist skills and scale up and down their delivery capacity to meet dynamic project demands.
Dedicated teams or individual specialists make this possible, all while accelerating entire processes, getting products and services to market quicker, and keeping budgets in check.
TaaS allows you to access and consume best practices that improve delivery processes in addition to pinpointing issues and opportunities that internal teams are likely to overlook simply because they see them every day.
In summary, the benefits include:
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Read more about how a blended team enables xWave to meet their business goals.
Each of our client engagements is led by senior Program and Technical professionals with decades of experience. This ensures your team dovetails into your existing product quality and delivery processes.
Where your product delivery processes are informal or yet to be defined, we offer our ISO 27001 certified Software Factory delivery model as a template suite of automated software delivery processes to ensure the highest quality standards are applied to all deliverables, including:
