Four ways to cover the work.
An outside development team
A provider supplies development capacity and may also cover review, releases, and support. Your manager sets priorities and manages the relationship.
Compare scope, responsiveness, continuity, and the services included in the fee.
An employee or internal team
You build technical ownership within the business. Hiring, management, tools, and coverage become part of your operating responsibility.
Evaluate the ongoing workload and the range of skills the application needs.
AI tools operated by your technical team
Your developers choose and run coding tools, review changes, and handle delivery. The tools can assist execution; your team supplies the workflow.
Include tool costs and the time spent directing, reviewing, and operating them.
Kardbrd with an agreed operating setup
Your project owner directs agents from the board. Agents work in the application environment and return results for review.
Agree who provides setup, technical review, release operations, and support, then evaluate total cost and accepted work in a pilot.
Keep the useful parts of your current arrangement.
A pilot can sit alongside an existing provider when access and responsibilities allow. The current team may retain specialist maintenance, review, or production support while you evaluate scoped agent work.
A critical migration, missing source code, or an unsupported production system may require experienced technical discovery before agent delivery is a useful next step.
Ask every option the same questions.
- Who turns a business request into a reviewable result?
- Who checks correctness, security, and release readiness?
- Who maintains the environment and handles incidents?
- Which costs are fixed, metered, or additional?
- What happens when the result needs rework or the arrangement ends?