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Product Management

Treating Product Teams As Investments

How to structure product teams and feature developments inside one team: basic needs, long-term initiatives, and short-term bets.

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András Juhász
Aug 09, 2022 • 6 min read
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Summary

Product management concepts and frameworks writer Andras Juhasz discusses the answer to the conundrum, of "how to structure product teams to operate efficiently" in this article. He explores a framework for designing product teams, how that’s similar to making investments, and how it can be translated to deciding on feature priorities by simply treating product teams as investments.

Takeaways

  • The same approach for structuring investments applies to structuring product teams. Long-term, short-term, and money for the food.
  • There is no perfect answer on how to scope product teams. However, the most common one is, it depends.
  • To structure an empowered product team, the company vision has to be backed by market knowledge, a list of potential customers, and a demonstrated hunger for a solution.

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