The advantages of a product team

These are some of the benefits of working with a product team over a project team:

  • Better quality: Project teams are often under pressure to deliver on budget or on time; this is how they are usually managed. If the project comes under pressure in terms of either of these, the scramble to complete it will result in a lower-quality product. If integrating with other systems, this can lead to high dependency (tightly-coupled reusability) or total autonomy (no reusability, which will probably involve us reinventing the wheel several times) rather than the sweet spot of getting just the right level of coupling and reuse.
  • A sense of ownership: There is a sense of ownership that comes built-in with product teams; ...

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