Product Development Team

A Product Development Team is a cross-functional team that collaborates to build and deliver product features and product enhancements.

• Context:
  • It can typically include Product Managers for product direction.
  • It can typically comprise Software Engineers for technical implementation.
  • It can typically involve UX Designers for user experience design.
  • It can typically contain Quality Assurance Engineers for product testing.
  • It can typically incorporate Data Analysts for insight generation.
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  • It can often employ Scrum Masters for process facilitation.
  • It can often include Technical Writers for documentation creation.
  • It can often engage DevOps Engineers for deployment automation.
  • It can often utilize Product Marketing Managers for go-to-market planning.
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  • It can range from being a Small Product Development Team to being a Large Product Development Team, depending on its team size.
  • It can range from being a Co-located Product Development Team to being a Distributed Product Development Team, depending on its geographic distribution.
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  • It can execute Product Roadmaps through sprint execution.
  • It can implement Product Requirements Documents via feature development.
  • It can consume Product Backlog items for work planning.
  • It can generate Product Metrics through feature instrumentation.
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• Example(s):
  • Product Development Team Structures, such as:
    • Feature Team owning end-to-end feature delivery.
    • Component Team specializing in technical layers.
    • Platform Team building shared infrastructure.
  • Product Development Team Models, such as:
    • Spotify Squad with autonomous decision-making.
    • Two-Pizza Team maintaining small team size.
    • Tiger Team for critical initiatives.
  • Product Development Team Maturity Levels, such as:
    • Forming Product Development Team establishing team norms.
    • Performing Product Development Team achieving high productivity.
    • Self-Organizing Product Development Team with distributed leadership.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Project Team, which disbands after project completion rather than continuing product evolution.
  • Functional Team, which focuses on single discipline rather than cross-functional collaboration.
  • Support Team, which maintains existing systems rather than building new features.
• See: Product Management, Software Development Team, Cross-functional Collaboration, Agile Team.

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