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Product Teams Explained: the key components for a successful product team

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Best product teams are cross-disciplinary, small, and autonomous. Their composition varies from company to company and from project to project and yet they have a set of essential characteristics in common.In this episode, we discuss what is a product team, what makes it different from “classic” teams, and which are the main skills needed for a successful product team. These abilities translates into different roles depending on the company or the product:

  • Understand the user:
    • UX / Product Researcher
    • UX / Product Designer
    • Product Manager / Product Owner
    • Data Analyst
    • Understand the market and the competitors:
    • Product Manager / Product Owner
    • UX / Product Researcher
    • UX / Product Designer
    • Understand the business strategy:
    • Product Manager / Product Owner
    • Product Strategist
    • Understanding feasibility:
    • Developers
    • QA
    • Defining, executing and delivering the solution
    • UX / Product Designer
    • Developers (FE, BE, etc.)
    • QA
    • Project Manager / Delivery Manager
    • Market the solutions:
    • Marketing specialist
    • Product Manager
    • Evaluate the outcome:
    • Product Manager
    • Data Analyst
    • Whole team if possible

      • Last but not least, we talk about Product Trios: a model for collaborative product leadership that represents the intersection between the 3 key disciplines in product:

      • Desirability: Design and Research
      • Viability: Engineering
      • Feasibility: Product

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