Dedicated Team and Other Work Models

1. Forming

Forming

a. Project and Team planning

This first step is very important – creating a structure of roles for the future team and job descriptions for every team member. This step is critical from the point of view of the future team successfully passing every development stage and reaching the highest performance. One influences the other – if you clearly understand the place of each developer in the team structure, it will help you to describe the job better; if the job description is clear and attractive, you will engage better people. Overall, if the job satisfies employee expectations, your team will achieve maximum performance faster and maintain it longer.

b. Recruitment

After obtaining a job and project description, Danavero’s recruitment team starts to search for appropriate candidates within existing company employees and on the external job market. The recruitment team pre-screens candidates and organizes their interviews, which include several stages (soft-skills interviews, technical interviews) and finishes with an interview of a customer representative.

c. Onboarding

In stage one, Forming, team members tend to behave quite independently – they may be motivated, but they are usually relatively uninformed of the issues and objectives of the team. In order to build trust and cooperation faster and more effectively, Danavero assigns a project manager to assist. The project manager is introduced to the client by a responsible sales/recruitment representative via email as soon as the first team member is hired. Their task in the initial stage is to gather all important information and share it with all team members. They also prepare the necessary work environment for the project team, as well as determine first tasks and the framework of team cooperation.

2. Storming

Storming

The Storming stage is a serious challenge for the newly formed team. In this stage, team members begin to understand their own roles more deeply, as well as their boundaries and intersections with the roles of the other participants. During this process of progressive involvement, team members begin to collaborate and discuss personal responsibility and commitment.

The assigned Danavero project manager helps individual developers become a team. The Human Resource team, which is responsible for efficient internal communication and the adaptation of newcomers, monitors the situation in the team, helps to manage it, quickly reacts to any unproductive situations, and increases the efficiency of collaboration.

3. Norming

Norming

On the Norming stage, team members clearly understand the limits of their responsibilities. The main task of this stage is to reach the maximum of efficiency and teamwork productivity. In the Dedicated Team model, Danavero reaches it out by implementing an Agile approach and procedure for software development, such as Scrum or Kanban.

Agile methodologies are flexible enough to be customized to the needs of any customer and provide:

• teamwork sustainability
• accurate task estimation
• team's commitment to continuous integration practices
• automated testing to protect quality of software code
• respond to customers’ expectations
• continuous deployment to get fast feedback.

4. Performing

Performing

On the Performing stage, team rules and roles are established. Group members focus on achieving project goals, and they are motivated and knowledgeable.

The Danavero goal in this stage is to make all necessary efforts to maintain team performance at the highest level, taking into account all possible evolving circumstances. Such circumstances could include, changing customer business strategies, shifting market situations, new technological innovations, etc.

Such circumstances could be changing strategy of customer business, situation on markets, new technology innovation etc.

Danavero manages such challenges through a smooth process of on-demand scaling and support, which means we provide more developers when customers need to extend their teams on-demand, as well as dissolve the staff they no longer need. The smoothness of the process is achieved by:

• detailed project documentation
• effective kick-off of new team members
• transparent team communication
• best project management practices

Thus Danavero possesses all necessary knowledge, skills and tools to build, develop, and maintain a Dedicated Team that will achieve the most ambitious customer goals.