How a Dedicated Squad Lets You Scale Engineering Capacity Without Hiring
Hiring is slow, fixed and risky. A dedicated squad turns engineering capacity into a dial you can turn up or down as your roadmap changes.
The real bottleneck is capacity, not ideas
Most growing companies have a backlog longer than their team can ship. Every month the backlog grows, the gap between what customers ask for and what you deliver widens.
Hiring closes that gap slowly. A full-time engineer takes weeks to recruit, weeks more to onboard, and becomes a fixed cost whether the roadmap is busy or quiet.
What a dedicated squad changes
A dedicated squad is a small group of specialists assigned to your product for an agreed share of their week. Instead of hiring one person for one skill, you get the mix you need: web development, app development, project management, QA and technical support.
Because the allocation is a percentage, capacity is easy to reason about. One full-time person is about 40 hours a week. A 60% web developer is roughly 24 hours of web work every week, and a 20% project manager is about 8 hours.
- Add a role when a new need appears, such as QA before a big release
- Raise or lower percentages as the roadmap changes
- Keep the same people, so context compounds instead of resetting
Scaling in practice
Start small: a web developer at 60% and a project manager at 20% is enough to ship steadily. When the product gains users, add QA so releases stop breaking things. When customers ask for a mobile app, add an app developer. When production needs watching, add technical support.
Each step is a change to the allocation, not a recruiting project. You can build your own mix on the TreeHex dedicated squad page and see the weekly hours update as you adjust each role.
What you keep
Scaling through a squad does not mean giving up control. Repositories, cloud accounts and documentation live in your organization, and you see a working demo every week. If you later hire in-house, your team inherits clean code and a documented system.
FAQ
How fast can a squad start?
Typically within days of agreeing scope, because the team already works together and does not need to be recruited.
Can we change the mix later?
Yes. Allocations are reviewed monthly, so you can add roles or change percentages as your roadmap changes.
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