Product Teams: Complete Guide to Fantastic “Creatures”
summary
Describes how 5–7 person product teams run daily releases while handling about 70% support and 30% product work, relying on multi-skilled engineers who alternate coding, testing, ops and customer calls. Recommends concrete practices: invest in people, colocate support and developers, keep short plans, document cultural rules, and justify refactors with metrics; includes examples such as outsourcing monkey testing and achieving 2–5x profit growth in a year.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:42What is a product team
- 5:05Myths vs realities
- 10:13Why product inspires
- 13:02Product growth in Ukraine
- 17:39People and process lessons
- 23:32Avoiding routine, focus on core
- 27:36Q&A
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