How do you split a product team?
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How do you split a product team?
Splitting our product team from a single team to several teams
- Focus on your upcoming roadmap themes. We have a large product set and not enough people to have full time teams on each area.
- Coordinating the teams.
- Try separate meetings and processes for each team.
- Avoid micro teams.
- Changing resourcing levels between teams.
When multiple teams are working together on the same product?
When multiple teams work together on the same product, each team should maintain a separate Product Backlog. Products have one Product Backlog, regardless of how many teams are used. Any other setup makes it difficult for the Development Team to determine what it should work on.
What is the role of a product manager?
A single product manager will rarely be responsible for every effort that goes towards the development of a product. Most organizations will have multiple product managers, each with their own area of responsibility, while some tasks will be offloaded to other departments, like marketing and customer success.
How many engineers does it take to hire a product manager?
This enables greater leverage, with one product manager to eight to 12 engineers, versus the ratio of one product manager to four or five engineers that has been common in the past. An intense focus on the customer is prominent among all product managers.
How long does it take to become a product manager?
After three to four years, they may get an executive or a full-time MBA with a specialization in product management, which is becoming an area of focus at several top-tier MBA programs, and which we expect will become more prevalent. A key aspect of a future product manager’s profile will be frequent transitions between products and even companies.
Is the product manager the mini-CEO of the product?
Unlike product managers of the past, who were primarily focused on execution and were measured by the on-time delivery of engineering projects, the product manager of today is increasingly the mini-CEO of the product.