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Allignement of Structure for Product Teams
The most important rule of product organizational structures is that they should closely mirror the partner functions. So engineering, product management, and design should tend to have structures that match each other whenever possible.
Product teams tend to work best when aligned with how engineering, design, and other partner functions are structured, so there are 1:1 relationships between leadership roles in those functions.
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Organization by Type of Product Work
A common organization structure is to separate teams based on the type of work they are doing:t
- the innovation pillar working on new products.
- the core pillar trying to strengthen the core product with additional features and maintaining the c...
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Organization by Value Proposition
If a product has different value propositions, a common structure is to separate product teams by those different value props. For example, at Pinterest, the value props were Discover, Save, and Do, and had different product pillars for each of those value props. This makes it easy to al...
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Organization by Initiative
Companies tend to have strategic initiatives that emerge from annual planning, so a common organizational structure is to align product and engineering around those initiatives. The initiative structure allows PM’s and engineers to flex between innovation, growth, scaling, etc. a...
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Organization by Customer
If a product has different types of customers, a common structure is to separate product teams by the customers they build for:
- in marketplaces that have supply and demand teams, or
- In subscription companies that have self-serve and enterpris...
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The Types of Product Team Organizational Structures - Casey Accidental
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