Shape the workstream
The goal is clear, but the delivery scope and team are not.
Define priorities, dependencies, roles, decision owners, and a delivery proposal before committing to a team.
Discuss this starting pointManaged development teams for US businesses
A delivery team.
An agreed workstream.
Clear responsibility.
A managed development team for US businesses that need coordinated software delivery. You own business priorities; Salt coordinates the agreed engineering work, with leadership, QA, reporting, and release responsibilities defined in the proposal.
Find your starting point
What do you need to move forward?
For businesses with a product decision owner and a workstream that needs coordinated delivery beyond individual developer capacity.
- Product teams launching a release without a complete delivery team.
- Engineering leaders assigning a bounded workstream to an external partner.
- Operations leaders building a business system with one accountable delivery arrangement.
If your own team already leads planning, reviews, and delivery and only needs engineering capacity, dedicated developers may be the closer fit.
Explore dedicated developersEvaluate the engineering experience
Match the team to the work ahead.
Review Salt’s delivered applications as capability evidence. Team composition, allocation, and delivery responsibilities for your engagement are defined separately.
What your team can deliver
Build the team around
a defined workstream.
Combine the skills your work needs. These are examples of team scope, not fixed packages or mandatory team sizes.
Product & feature development
Build web or mobile features, APIs, and integrations. Agree responsibility for technical design, implementation, testing, release preparation, and documentation.
Explore software developmentData & AI delivery
Connect data sources, build pipelines and reporting, or develop AI-assisted workflows. Define data access, evaluation criteria, human review, and monitoring before production use.
Explore AI and automationQA & test automation
Create a risk-based test plan, automate important user journeys, and integrate checks into the release process. Agree test environments, defect triage, performance testing, and acceptance evidence.
Explore testing and QACloud, DevOps & reliability
Improve cloud environments, CI/CD, infrastructure automation, monitoring, and recovery procedures. Production access, incident ownership, support hours, and any on-call coverage are agreed explicitly.
Explore cloud modernizationA team with combined skills
Bring application, data, QA, and platform expertise into one coordinated workstream. Confirm the stack, required experience, role availability, allocation, and review responsibilities before committing.
Discuss your team requirementsContinuity and growth
Start with clear ownership.
Expand when the work calls for it.
Scale an established workstream
Review the backlog, delivery bottlenecks, dependencies, and budget before adding people or another workstream. Agree new responsibilities, onboarding, shared engineering standards, and coordination between teams. Confirm availability and a revised plan before expanding.
Support a longer-term roadmap
Maintain a shared planning and review cadence with named business and technical decision owners. Review priorities, delivery evidence, risks, spending, and team allocation regularly. Document change handling, intellectual property, support boundaries, and transition arrangements in the agreement.
Need to clarify the work before committing?
A focused assessment or a small pilot can be a starting step when there is a specific question to answer. Neither is a required package.
Explore ways to startScope before commitment
Know what you’re buying.
These are scope items to discuss for your engagement. Your proposal identifies the selected deliverables, exclusions, responsibilities, and acceptance criteria.
Delivery organization
Named responsibilities for coordination, engineering, technical review, testing, and access.
Visible progress
An agreed backlog, demonstrations, blocker reporting, and acceptance decisions connected to the work.
Continuity and handover
Documentation, repository and environment access, onboarding, and agreed replacement or transition arrangements.
Budget & timing
What shapes your estimate?
Start with the essential work, then separate later priorities. We need to understand the scope and dependencies before proposing a budget or delivery schedule.
Discuss your delivery workstream- Roles and allocation
- Engineering mix, technical leadership, QA, and allocation determine the proposed team cost.
- System and delivery scope
- Existing code quality, integrations, release expectations, and operational responsibility affect coverage.
- Collaboration requirements
- Meeting overlap, urgency, onboarding, and support coverage need to be priced and scheduled explicitly.
How the schedule takes shape
Team onboarding and a release date are different milestones. Confirm role availability, access, backlog readiness, and your decision owner before setting a start date. Estimate releases against the agreed team allocation and dependencies.
What to look for in the proposal
Deliverables and exclusions · team responsibilities · estimate assumptions · milestones and client dependencies · payment terms · acceptance and change process · handover and support.
Working with US companies
Your business in the US.
Engineering with Salt in Pune.
Choose who will lead delivery, then define the working arrangements. The operating model below separates your responsibilities from Salt’s; commercial terms are specific to your engagement.
| Responsibility | Dedicated engineers | Managed development team |
|---|---|---|
| Business priorities | Your product owner sets priorities and accepts business outcomes. | Your product owner sets priorities and accepts business outcomes. |
| Day-to-day delivery | Your team directs the engineer’s tasks, reviews, and delivery process. | Salt coordinates the agreed workstream and reports progress to your decision owner. |
| Technical leadership & QA | Your team supplies leadership and testing unless separately included. | The proposal identifies the leadership and testing included in Salt’s scope. |
| Changes and blockers | Your delivery lead manages prioritization and dependencies. | Salt raises delivery blockers and scope changes for your decision. |
Contracting and billing
Your proposal and agreement need to identify the legal contracting entity, scope, billing currency, payment schedule, and change process. US presence does not by itself determine the entity signing your contract.
Communication overlap
Identify your time zone, essential live meetings, delivery contacts, and escalation owner. Record the overlap window in both US local time and India time, including how daylight-saving changes are handled. Full US-day or 24/7 coverage is not a default commitment.
Source code and access
Separate repository access from legal ownership. Specify who administers the repository and deployment accounts, what code and assets are delivered, any pre-existing or third-party components, and the applicable IP terms.
Progress and acceptance
Define a review cadence, a shared view of work and blockers, and the person authorized to accept a deliverable. For each release, identify the acceptance criteria, known limitations, and unresolved issues.
Handover
List the handover deliverables: source access, setup and deployment instructions, environment requirements, outstanding issues, and a walkthrough. Identify the people receiving access and the system owner after delivery.
Support after delivery
Distinguish defect correction from new features and ongoing operations. Specify the support period, coverage hours, severity definitions, response targets, and escalation route. An ongoing support arrangement must be included explicitly.
Responsible Digital Catalyst, in practice
Meet SPARK.
Clarity from scope to release.
SPARK is Salt’s software delivery framework. It connects business priorities, reviewable work, release ownership, and ongoing improvement—with the depth adapted to your engagement.
Start a conversation
You don’t need every answer to get started.
The workstream, current team, stack, backlog, US time zone, and where you want Salt to take responsibility.
Discuss your delivery workstreamFrom enquiry to an agreed next step
- 01
Discuss the fit
We use your enquiry to clarify the problem, relevant experience, and the responsibilities your team needs help with.
- 02
Resolve the unknowns
We discuss whether there is enough information for a proposal or whether a separate discovery, assessment, or pilot is the useful first engagement.
- 03
Review the proposal
Before work starts, review scope, deliverables, estimate assumptions, commercial terms, and the decisions needed from your team.
Before choosing your engagement
Compare the options.
Clarify the responsibilities.
Use these guides to decide what to keep in-house, what to delegate, and what your delivery agreement needs to cover.
Staff augmentation or a managed team?
Compare your management responsibilities and the support each model needs.
Read the buyer guide ↗Managed team or defined project?
Compare scope, change, acceptance, and continuity.
Read the buyer guide ↗Managed delivery or in-house hiring?
Consider strategic ownership, total cost, and a hybrid model.
Read the buyer guide ↗SLAs and delivery governance
Define service boundaries, ownership, and escalation.
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