Chapter 19. Change your mind: your product is your team
by Jose Ramón Díaz
You should change your mind about what you’re building when you become a project manager or team leader (as a boss).
Forget your product. Look at your team. Suddenly, you don’t have to worry about technical decisions or pretty interfaces. You must realize that the basics of your work have changed. My own inspiration is the mantra “team equals product”:
The product will be as good as your team is.
The behavior of your team will determine the qualities of the product.
So your product as project manager is the team. Invest in the team. This will change your efforts profoundly and redirect them toward helping the team grow.
I first read that idea in the book Software ...
Get Elastic Leadership now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
