Product Teams
Aligning Structure to Strategy
1 day
Who is this course for?
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This course is for Product Managers who want to structure teams for maximum autonomy.
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This course is for Design Leads, Research Leads and Development Leads who want to understand how to structure teams for maximum impact.
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This course is for Marketing Leads, Sales Leads and Customer Service Leads who want to ensure product goals focus in the right areas.
Course Description
Designing team boundaries to maximise autonomy while ensuring alignment with company strategy is a difficult balance. Beyond structure, challenges around governance, funding, and coordination often get in the way. This course shares practical techniques for structuring aligned, empowered Stream Teams that work with, not against, your strategy.
What you'll learn
- Mapping Value Streams
- Master techniques for breaking down complex processes into autonomous, yet valuable, value streams.
- Identifying Stream Boundaries
- The real world is complicated and doesn't fit neatly into buckets. This can make defining value stream boundaries challenging. Learn how to do it.
- Defining Success Metrics
- Long-lived, autonomous teams are expensive. We need to ensure that they are delivering value. Learn how to define and track success metrics for value streams.
- Funding and Governance
- Long-lived teams are funded to achieve goals. This means that time and cost are fixed, but scope is flexible. We need new funding and governance approaches to accommodate this.
- Team Assignment
- How many people should be on each team? How do you allocate people to teams? We discuss strategies for team allocation.
- Continuous Assessment
- Setting up stream teams is not a one-time event. We need to continuously assess and adjust the scope and funding of teams.
- Growth Management
- Successful products grow, increasing the demands on teams. We discuss strategies for scaling teams over time without increasing bureaucracy.
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