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Inspired:
More important than the absolute size of the team is the balance of skills needed to ensure we build the right things, and build those things right.
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Inspired:
Usually, everyone on a product team is an individual contributor, and there are no people managers.
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Inspired:
A product team is a set of highly skilled people who come together for an extended period of time to solve hard business problems.
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…the tools for remote collaboration are getting better all the time, but the best companies have learned the value of sitting together as a team.
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Inspired:
All other things being equal, a co-located team is going to substantially outperform a dispersed team. That’s just the way it is.
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Inspired:
If people are moving from team to team all the time, it’s hard for them to get that expertise and to feel the necessary sense of ownership over their product…
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Inspired:
…to innovate you need expertise, and the durable nature of product teams lets people go deep enough to gain that expertise.
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Inspired:
The honest truth is that the product manager needs to be among the strongest talent in the company.
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When a product succeeds, it’s because everyone on the team did what they needed to do. But when a product fails, it’s the product manager’s fault.
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Inspired:
…it’s not enough to have feature parity with a competitor. Rather, you need to be substantially better to motivate a user or customer to switch.
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