Services · Dedicated Teams & Staff Augmentation
An embedded team of engineers, designers and QA who work inside your organisation: your backlog, your tools, your standups. Add roles as the roadmap grows, release them when it does not, and own every line of code throughout.
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OlDevs provides dedicated development teams and staff augmentation.Engineers, designers and QA who work inside your organisation as an extension of your own staff, rather than delivering a fixed scope from the outside. Teams are assembled at the Vancouver studio and work remotely in your time zone across Canada and the United States, joining your standups, your issue tracker and your code review process. Roles include full stack, mobile, AI and DevOps engineers plus product designers and QA specialists, and the team scales up or down as the roadmap changes. Clients own all code, designs, accounts and IP, and every enquiry gets a reply within one business day.
Key facts
Capacity without the hiring cycle
Engineers who work across the API, the database and the interface, so a feature does not stall at a handoff. They pick up your existing codebase, follow your conventions and ship through your review process rather than beside it.
iOS and Android specialists for native or cross platform work, including release management, store submissions and the unglamorous parts: crash triage, device testing and version support for the handsets your users actually carry.
People who can tell a real machine learning problem from a prompt and a wish. They build retrieval, evaluation and automation around models, wire the result into your product, and set up the monitoring that shows when quality drifts.
Pipelines, environments, infrastructure as code, observability and on call practice. They shorten the distance between a merged branch and a running release, and leave you with documented infrastructure instead of one person's memory.
Designers who work in your product rather than around it: flows, interface design, design systems and accessibility to WCAG 2.2 AA. They sit in the same standups as the engineers, so what gets drawn is what actually gets built.
Manual and automated testing, test plans, regression suites and release sign off. They also make defects legible, with reproduction steps a developer can act on and a bug queue your product owner can prioritise honestly.
Process
Discovery call
We talk through the work, your current team, the gaps and the constraints. If a dedicated team is the wrong instrument, or an off the shelf product would serve you better, we say so on that call.
Team shape
We propose roles, a seniority mix and a starting size, with a clear view of what each person owns and what stays with your staff. Smaller than you expect is often the right opening move.
Onboarding
Access, environments, an architecture walkthrough and a first small ticket in week one. The aim is a merged pull request early, not a month of reading documentation.
Ramp up
The first sprints run on real work with tight feedback. By the end of the ramp, the team is estimating reliably, demoing weekly and raising problems before they reach your calendar.
Steady state and scaling
The team runs at pace, and you add or release roles as the roadmap changes, on notice periods agreed in writing before anyone starts rather than improvised under pressure.
How we work
The team works from your backlog and your roadmap. Your product owner decides what matters next, and the engineers estimate, build and demo against that list rather than a scope document written months earlier.
Every engagement has a named lead who owns delivery, quality and escalation. You are not routed through an account manager who cannot answer a technical question, and you are not left to coordinate individuals yourself.
Progress is shown, not reported. Each week ends with something running that you can click through, which keeps a change of direction cheap and makes drift visible while it is still small.
The team joins your issue tracker, repositories, chat and standups. Tickets, notes and pull requests live where your own staff already look, so knowledge does not accumulate in a supplier's private workspace.
A short written summary each week: what shipped, what is in progress, what is blocked and what changed in the plan. Written so you can send it to a board, a committee or a franchise group without rewriting it first.
Least privilege access, separate credentials per person, signed confidentiality terms and offboarding that genuinely revokes accounts. You own all code, designs, accounts and IP from the first commit onward.
Who it's for
Product and IT groups that need capacity now without opening headcount. An embedded team works under your existing governance and change process, and hands over cleanly when internal hiring catches up.
Program teams with fixed mandates, procurement rules and accessibility obligations. We build to WCAG 2.2 AA, can deliver in English and French, and write reporting that survives a committee review.
Groups running one platform across many locations. A standing team keeps the shared product moving and handles location specific requests, so individual franchisees stop commissioning their own versions.
Founders who need a working team from day one and cannot wait out a hiring cycle. Start small, prove the product, then scale the team when traction and the roadmap actually justify it.
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2014
Vancouver studio founded
FAQ
A fixed scope project has an agreed deliverable, a defined end and a change process for anything outside it. A dedicated team is capacity: you set priorities week by week and the plan can change without renegotiating scope. Choose fixed scope when requirements are stable and the finish line is clear. Choose a team when the roadmap keeps moving.
Often, and we will say so. If the requirement is common, such as payroll, accounting, help desk, email marketing or standard e commerce, a licence usually beats a build on cost, timeline and long term maintenance. Building earns its place when the process is genuinely yours, when integration between existing systems is the real problem, or when the software is the product itself.
You do. Clients own all code, designs, accounts and IP produced during the engagement, and that is written into the agreement rather than left to custom. Repositories and cloud accounts are in your name from the start, so there is no migration at the end and no supplier holding a key you need.
The studio sits in Vancouver on Pacific time, which gives a full working overlap with Mountain and Central hours and the afternoon of an Eastern day. Standups, demos and reviews are scheduled in your time zone. Where the working day is wider than that, we agree fixed overlap windows in writing instead of assuming people will stay late.
It depends on the roles and the state of your codebase. Onboarding starts with access, environments and an architecture walkthrough, and we aim for a merged pull request in the first week and a working demo by the end of the second. Complex or thinly documented systems take longer, and we will tell you that rather than promise a fast start we cannot make.
Yes. Roles are added or released on a notice period agreed in writing before anyone starts. Offboarding includes handover notes, updated documentation and access revocation, so what the team learned stays with your organisation. Scaling down should be a planned step, not a fire drill at the end of a quarter.
Least privilege access, separate credentials for each person, signed confidentiality terms and prompt revocation when someone rolls off. Where privacy law applies to your data, such as PIPEDA in Canada, we build to the requirements your counsel sets out and keep data handling documented. This page is general information, not legal advice.
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