9 Simple Yet Powerful Principles for Building Strong Product Teams
Building strong product teams drives software success. Learn 9 proven principles to boost trust, autonomy, and collaboration for lasting impact.
Building a high-performing product team is essential to delivering working software and ensuring the success of a commercially oriented software product company.
Over the past 15 years, I have had the privilege of helping numerous CEOs, CIOs and CTOs build effective and sustainable software product teams.
In a previous software initiative, the teams were organised according to aspects such as: Frontend, Backend, Infrastructure and Design.
We transformed the teams into cross-functional, business-specific teams: Business aspects such as: Order Team, Payment Team, Catalogue Team, ... Each of these teams has its own employees who take on E2E responsibility and give them autonomy.
The larger the team, the longer these team development phases take. So start small, build a healthy core and develop the product team over time.
