Do the engineers work exclusively for us?

In the dedicated model yes — that is the difference from a project engagement. Capacity is assigned rather than split across clients, so context knowledge accumulates in the team instead of being rebuilt at every switch.

How do we keep control of architecture and quality?

Through the usual mechanisms: code review on your side, a shared definition of done, access to the repository and CI, and architecture decisions that get documented rather than made silently. If you have an in-house team, we recommend keeping architectural authority there.

What happens if we want to scale the team back down?

That belongs in the framework agreement with a notice period, typically one to two months. More important than the notice period is knowledge handover: documentation and handover notes belong in the ongoing work from the start, not at the end — otherwise exiting costs more than entering.

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Building a Dedicated Engineering Team in Türkiye

A dedicated team is a different thing from a project engagement. You are not commissioning a bounded deliverable but standing capacity: the same engineers, continuously, inside your process and your backlog. It pays off when the work is not boundable in advance — ongoing product development, a backlog that shifts with what you learn in production. For one-off, clearly specified work, a fixed-price project is the better structure. The essential difference is where knowledge accumulates: with a dedicated team it grows in the team and stays available; with a project engagement it ends at handover.

The three models compared

Dedicated team: standing capacity, monthly billing per profile, you own the backlog. Suits ongoing product development from roughly three months.
Project engagement: bounded scope, fixed price, defined acceptance. Suits migrations, interfaces and clearly specified work.
Capacity extension: individual profiles alongside an existing in-house team, with architecture and domain knowledge staying with you.
In every model: German-speaking project leadership, contracts through the Berlin address, and the Art. 28 / Art. 46 GDPR construction.

How the first weeks run

01Scope and staffing get settled first — which profiles, which seniority levels, how much capacity. This step is usually the real bottleneck, not developer availability.
02In parallel the contractual and data protection setup runs: framework agreement, data processing agreement, Standard Contractual Clauses, and a decision on which data the team sees at all.
03Then onboarding against anonymised datasets, and a deliberately small first delivery that lets both sides check the working relationship holds before capacity is scaled up.

When a dedicated team is the wrong model

For one-off work with clearly bounded scope — a fixed-price project is cheaper and simpler to steer.
Below roughly three months: onboarding does not amortise.
When nobody internally can prioritise the backlog. A dedicated team needs a product decision on your side; without one you get utilisation without outcomes.

Team model questions

In the dedicated model yes — that is the difference from a project engagement. Capacity is assigned rather than split across clients, so context knowledge accumulates in the team instead of being rebuilt at every switch.

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