Good teams Vs Bad teams

In my current & past roles, I’ve analyzed and worked with multiple folks from different backgrounds from tech to design, to QA to sales, to BD to CS. From what I have gathered, there exists a significant contrast between how the most exceptional product companies develop products and how all the others approach it.

• Good teams possess an understanding of their essential stakeholders, including the limitations within which they operate. They are committed to innovating solutions that not only benefit their users and customers but also align with the overall business constraints. On the contrary, ineffective teams merely collect requirements from stakeholders.
• Good teams possess the ability to rapidly experiment with product concepts using various techniques to determine their viability before proceeding to build them. Bad teams, resort to holding meetings to generate prioritized roadmaps.
• Good teams embrace brainstorming discussions with insightful thought leaders from all areas of the company. Conversely, ineffective teams take offense when someone outside their team dares to suggest something.
• Product, design, and engineering teams that function effectively sit together, encouraging open communication and collaboration between functionality, and user experience, and enabling technology. Ineffective teams work within their respective silos, requiring others to make requests for their services through documents and scheduled meetings.
• Good teams insist they have the skill sets in their team, such as strong product design, necessary to create winning products & better User Experience. Bad teams don’t even know what product designers are.
• Effective teams make it a point to interact directly with end users and customers on a weekly basis, aiming to gain a better understanding of their needs and to evaluate their response to the team’s latest ideas. In contrast, ineffective teams assume that they know what the customer wants without seeking their input.
• Successful teams comprehend the importance of speed and how rapid iteration is crucial to innovation, and they realize that the speed they need comes from implementing the right techniques and not from forcing hard labor. Conversely, unsuccessful teams complain about being slow, blaming their colleagues for not working hard enough.
• Good teams iterate multiple times & pivot from the main idea if they see a need. Bad teams find it hard to pivot/change their strategy that doesn’t align with their roadmap.
• Good teams obsess over their reference customers. Bad teams obsess over their competitors.
• Good teams celebrate when they achieve a significant impact on the business results. Bad teams celebrate when they finally release something. Outcomes over outputs 💪

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