SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT TEAMS
Your product is growing faster than your engineering. We fix that.
A Mino is not just a team—it’s consultancy, technical leadership, and engineering delivered as one embedded unit. We start by understanding your business problem, then build the capability to solve it.
THE MINO MODEL
What is a Mino?
More than a team. A Mino is consultancy, management, and engineering combined into one embedded unit. It starts with understanding your business—the PM and PO layer acts as strategic consultancy, bridging what your company needs with what engineering delivers. Below that, technical leads set direction, and a balanced engineering team executes end-to-end.
Business-first
Every Mino starts with your problem, not with filling seats. The consultancy layer ensures alignment.
Scales with the problem
Minos grow and adapt based on what the problem demands, not what a contract says.
End-to-end coverage
Dev, test, ops, and a fourth flexible role. No gaps, no handoffs.
STRUCTURE
Three layers, one team
Strategic Consultancy
Who’s here?
Product Owners, Project Managers
Role
Understanding your business problem, setting priorities, aligning stakeholders—bridging what the company needs with what engineering delivers
Value
Ensures engineering effort is always business-aligned
Technical Leadership
Who’s here?
Lead Dev, Lead Tester, Lead Ops (depending on the project)
Role
Architectural direction, quality standards, coaching—translating strategy into executable engineering decisions
Value
The bridge between business strategy and engineering execution
Engineering
Who’s here?
Dev, Test, Ops and a fourth, flexible role (Product, UX, Data, or Security)
Role
Executing tasks, delivering features, ensuring product stability and performance
Value
Complete skill coverage for end-to-end delivery
THE PROCESS
How a Mino works for you
Understand the business problem
We start with your challenge, not a staffing request. What’s the gap between where your product is and where it needs to be?
Design the Mino
Based on the problem, we compose the right mix of consultancy, leadership, and engineering capability.
Embed and deliver
The Mino integrates into your organization—your tools, your rituals, your goals. Shipping starts immediately.
Adapt and scale
As the problem evolves, the Mino evolves with it. Roles shift, capacity scales, accountability stays.
JOIST
Recognizable. Tetris Inspired.
Each Mino’s focus is communicated through an iconic Tetris shape. The shape tells you the competency emphasis at a glance.
J-Mino
Ops enhanced
O-Mino
Balanced
I-Mino
Dev-heavy
S-Mino
Strategic Unit
T-Mino
Test-focused
Talk straight to a founder.
30 minutes. No pitch, no pressure. Just space to explore what you’re building and where you want to go.
Wouter van Nierop
Co-founder at Tetrifox