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03 · Most accountability on us

Managed team: a business outcome, not a set of seats

You have a business goal and a budget, and no engineering leadership. You give us the outcome; we own product management, technical leadership, design, build, QA and operations. You make the call: go or stop.

The facts

Minimum
A team of 5
Commitment
6 to 12 months
Billing
A monthly team price
Runs the day
Folowise, end to end

Who owns what

What you own, and what we own

Four glowing hexagonal nodes joined by a lit path across a dark grid, one step per engagement model

You own

  • The business goal and what success means
  • The budget and the go/no-go
  • Access to customers and stakeholders

Folowise owns

  • Product management, discovery and roadmap
  • Architecture and technical leadership
  • Design, build, QA and release
  • Accountability for hitting the commitment

A typical shape

  • Product manager1
  • Tech lead1
  • Product designer1
  • Engineers3
  • QA1
  • DevOps1

Before the contract

The responsibility matrix

This table is the contract before the contract. If we later disagree about who was supposed to do something, we come back here.

The questionStaff augmentationDedicated teamManaged team
Who decides what gets builtYouYouFolowise
Who sets sprint prioritiesYouSharedFolowise
Who runs the daily standupYouFolowiseFolowise
Who reviews the codeYouFolowiseFolowise
Who sets the quality barYouSharedFolowise
Who formally employs the engineerFolowiseFolowiseFolowise
Who handles payroll and HRFolowiseFolowiseFolowise
Who does the final interviewYouYouShared
Who replaces someone who leavesFolowiseFolowiseFolowise
Who is accountable for the deadlineYouSharedFolowise
Who owns the code and the IPYouYouYou

Next step

Tell us what you are trying to ship

Not the headcount. Tell us the product, the date, and what team you have today, and we will propose the shape. If we think what you need is not more engineers, we will say so on the first call.

Send a briefBook a 20 minute call

Typical response within one business day · everything you share is treated as confidential