Team Outsourcing Sri Lanka
Developer team outsourcing for short term projects and long term capacity
Capricon provides developer teams you can plug into your roadmap for a few months or keep embedded for years. You get engineering capacity with Capricon delivery oversight, not a pile of freelancers to manage alone.
Who this is for
- Product owners who need extra developers for a release window without permanent headcount
- Companies building or extending Capricon products and custom systems with steady backlog
- Startups and SMEs that want a small dedicated squad instead of hiring each role in house
- Enterprises that need surge capacity for integrations, mobile, or backend work
What team outsourcing typically includes
- Short term teams sized for a fixed scope or sprint window
- Long term embedded engineers who join your standup and backlog rhythm
- Roles such as full stack, backend, frontend, mobile, QA, and tech lead as scoped
- Capricon delivery coordination so communication, quality, and progress stay visible
- Onboarding onto your repos, tools, and coding standards where access is granted
- Knowledge handover notes when a short term engagement ends
What this is not
- A substitute for your product owner deciding priorities and accepting work
- Unlimited scope without a backlog or change process
- IT department outsourcing for servers and helpdesk that belongs on our IT outsourcing service
- Software AMC ticket support alone without named development capacity
How a team engagement usually runs
- Agree goals, skills needed, team size, and short term or long term duration
- Confirm tools, access, working hours overlap, and reporting cadence
- Start with a short ramp so engineers learn your codebase and ways of working
- Deliver in sprints or weekly plans with demos and written progress
- Scale the team up or down when the roadmap changes, with notice rules in the contract
Planning bands
Order-of-magnitude team outsourcing planning bands
Most engagements price per role or per small squad on a monthly retainer. Seniority, stack scarcity, and delivery oversight move the band—not a fake seat sticker.
Single embedded engineer
LKR 350K – 650K / month
One Capricon developer (mid to senior planning band) joining your backlog with Capricon delivery check-ins. Useful for steady feature velocity without a full hire.
Short-term sprint squad (2–3)
LKR 700K – 1.8M / month
Burst capacity for a release window, integration, or mobile/backend push—often three to six months—with handover notes when the window ends.
Long-term multi-role squad
LKR 1.5M – 3.5M+ / month
Embedded squad with mixed roles (e.g. full stack + QA or tech lead). Scales with notice terms. Upper end reflects senior leads and larger concurrent capacity.
Planning bands for budgeting—final quote after discovery. SLA table is finalized in your contract.
SLA model
Delivery expectations (not ticket AMC)
Team outsourcing SLAs focus on capacity, communication, and replacement—not bug severity tables alone. Pair with software AMC when you also need production incident SLAs.
| Severity | Response | Resolution / restore | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical (blocker / outage support) | Same day within overlap hours | Prioritize until unblocked or escalated with owner | Applies when the squad owns the affected codebase path |
| High (sprint commitment risk) | Within 1 business day | Replan sprint scope with written trade-offs | Missed demo risk, dependency blockers, access loss |
| Normal (backlog / process) | Next standup or weekly plan | Tracked in backlog with agreed priority | Non-urgent tickets, refinements, documentation |
Typically in SLA scope
- Agreed hours overlap, reporting cadence, and Capricon delivery coordination
- Replacement path if a named engineer leaves mid-engagement
- Knowledge handover for short-term windows
Usually outside SLA hours
- Unlimited scope without backlog or change process
- IT helpdesk / infrastructure ops (see IT outsourcing)
- AMC-only ticket support without named development capacity
Buyer checklist
Questions to ask before you outsource a developer team
Ask these in every vendor meeting, including ours.
- Can we hire for a short term burst and later convert to a long term team?
- Who manages day to day task assignment, your PM or Capricon’s delivery lead?
- What happens if a named engineer leaves mid engagement?
- Which IP and code ownership terms apply to work produced?
- How do we measure velocity and quality beyond hours logged?
- What is the notice period to reduce or end the team?
Frequently asked questions
- What is team outsourcing?
- Team outsourcing means Capricon provides one or more developers who work on your product or project for a defined period. You can use a short term team for a release or integration, or a long term team that stays with your backlog month after month.
- What is the difference between short term and long term teams?
- Short term teams are sized for a clear window such as three to six months or a named release. Long term teams stay embedded, learn your domain deeply, and grow or shrink with your roadmap under agreed notice terms.
- How is this different from IT department outsourcing?
- Team outsourcing is for building and changing software. IT department outsourcing is for day to day operations, legacy care, and infrastructure coordination. Many clients use both when they need builders and operators.
- How is this different from buying Capricon software development?
- Software development projects are scoped around a deliverable Capricon owns end to end. Team outsourcing adds capacity into your process. You still own the backlog and product decisions while Capricon supplies engineers and delivery support.
- Can the team work on Capricon products and our own systems?
- Yes. Teams often extend Capricon Core, Capricon Care, or custom applications Capricon built, and they can also work on your other codebases when access and stack fit are confirmed in discovery.
- How does pricing usually work?
- Most team outsourcing uses a monthly rate per role or per squad based on seniority and hours. Short term bursts may be quoted as a fixed window. Change in team size is handled with notice so both sides can plan.
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