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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