Stop Losing 20% of Payroll
to -10x Engineers.
One -10x engineer nullifies 10 good ones. We prevent it with daily visibility, milestone tracking, and bonus-linked delivery. Process that catches problems in 24 hours, not 10 weeks.
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Daily
Engineer Status Videos
Milestones
Not Hourly Estimates
Bonus-Driven
Performance Pay
Solving Software Issues
Most engineering problems look like talent problems. They’re almost always management problems hiding in plain sight.
Invisible Work
- — No idea what engineers actually shipped
- — Standups become status theater
Missed Deadlines
- — Estimates slip silently
- — Surprises only at sprint review
Misaligned Incentives
- — Hourly billing rewards slow work
- — No upside for shipping fast
Daily Visibility
- Async video updates from every engineer
- You see the work — not the words about it
Milestone Tracking
- Work broken into reviewable units
- Slip detection inside 24 hours, not weeks
Bonus on Delivery
- Engineers paid more for hitting targets
- Your goals become their goals
How We Manage The Work
Four operating mechanisms — running on every Timofi engagement, from day one. This is the difference between a body shop and a managed engineering org.
Milestone Roadmap
Every engagement starts with a milestone breakdown — not a vague backlog. Each milestone has a definition of done, an owner, a target date, and a payout. You always know what is shipping next and when.
- Definition of done before work starts
- Owner + target date per milestone
- Slip alerts if a milestone is at risk
Daily Engineer Videos
Every engineer records a short async video at end of day — what they shipped, what is blocked, what they will tackle tomorrow. You skim three minutes a morning instead of sitting through standups across timezones.
- End-of-day async video per engineer
- Tagged by milestone for easy triage
- Replaces the standup meeting
Engineering Time Tracker
Active coding time, review time, and meeting time are tracked automatically. You see who is doing the work, who is blocked, and where the leaks are — without micromanaging anyone.
- Active vs passive time, automatically
- Per-engineer + per-milestone breakdown
- Flags context-switching and overload
Bonus-Linked Delivery
Engineers are paid a base rate plus milestone bonuses tied to your priorities. Hit the milestone on time, on quality — get paid more. Slip it — base rate only. Incentives finally pull in the same direction as your roadmap.
- Base rate + milestone bonus structure
- Quality gates before bonus releases
- Aligns engineer pay with your roadmap
Two workflows. One managed engineering org.
Maintenance and net-new product development are fundamentally different work — and they need different management. We run them as two distinct pipelines so each gets the attention, rigor, and accountability it deserves.
Run the Business
Product Maintenance Steps
Define
- Customer Issues
- Issue Detailing & Cases
- Acceptance Criteria
Develop
- Prototyping / Wireframe / Design (when required)
- Task Breakdown
- Diagnostic & Solution Design
- Execution
- Validation & QA Testing
- Deploy
Grow the Business
Product Development Steps
Scoping
- Product Ideas
- Customer Use Cases
Upstream
- Prototyping & Wireframe
- Engineering Specs
- Business Review
- High-Fidelity Design
Downstream
- Engineering Details
- Task Breakdown
- Coding
- QA Testing
- Deliver & Deploy
Target Engineering Standards
The non-negotiables we manage every team against. Boring, repeatable, enforced — which is exactly why they work.
- 01Minimum customizations
- 02As much "on-off" functionality as possible — feature flags by default
- 03Feature roll-out via A/B testing — we build this capability in
- 04Documentation is part of delivery — customer docs are an asset, not an afterthought
- 05Test automation is part of delivery, not a follow-up sprint
- 06Backwards compatibility is always in mind
- 07Development starts only once engineering details are available
- 08Regression test scripts are mandatory for manual QA repeatability
Good Culture compounds
Management without culture is surveillance. These eight practices are how we keep engineers who could work anywhere actually want to ship for you.
- 01Promotions based on milestones, not tenure
- 02Generous, transparent pay increase schedule
- 03Enable self-direction and self-management
- 04Leadership training and real responsibility
- 05Direct interaction with stakeholders
- 06Paired coding / mentorship sessions
- 07Individual and team bonuses
- 08Team code review sessions
Let’s Manage Your Engineering Work
Tell us what you’re trying to ship. We’ll tell you honestly whether managed engineering is the right fit — and, if it is, exactly how we’d run the first 90 days.