Plan dedicated developers delivery and operations

What does this hub cover for nearshore delivery?

Use these guides to bring dedicated developers into your engineering team and manage their work after hiring. Start with the decisions your lead must own: who assigns tasks, who reviews code and who can approve a release.

The dedicated team works inside your process, tools and backlog. Before you hire dedicated developers, name the person who will turn product priorities into ready-to-build work. Give that person time to answer questions and review changes.

For a nearshore or LatAm team, write down shared working hours as well as meeting times. Bogotá stays at UTC-5 without daylight saving time. Buenos Aires stays at UTC-3 without daylight saving time. Your schedule with a US office may therefore shift during the year. IANA time zone rules document those offsets.

Keep the operating plan practical. A developer should know where to find a task, how to run the project and whom to contact when blocked. Your lead should be able to inspect work without requesting a separate status deck.

Read the Opus guide to hiring a nearshore development team.

Which entries should you read first?

Choose the entry that matches the decision in front of you:

• Plan onboarding over 30, 60 and 90 days. Start here when you have selected a hire. Map access, the first task and review checkpoints to named owners. Treat the plan as a schedule you will adjust after seeing the developer work.
• Set time zone overlap. Read this before agreeing on working hours. Decide when code reviews and live discussions need both sides present. Record how the schedule changes with US daylight saving time.
• Prepare IP, security and devices. Use this before granting access. Decide which systems each role needs and who approves access changes. Include the steps for returning equipment and closing accounts.
• Review quality. Use this when defining acceptance criteria and release checks. Keep reviews in your existing workflow, and make the developer's first task small enough for prompt feedback.
• Scale to a team. Read this when the backlog calls for more roles. Map dependencies between engineers and check that your lead has enough time to manage the added work.
• Plan replacement and offboarding. Use this before a departure becomes urgent. Keep setup instructions and work in progress in company systems so another engineer can take over.

If your start date is close, read onboarding and access guidance first. If you are still choosing a hiring model, begin with team versus individual hires.

Bring the resulting plan to your hiring discussion: the role, the manager, shared hours and the first piece of work.

Read the Opus nearshore team hiring guide.

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