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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