S.P.A.C.E.
The SPACE framework is used for measuring, understanding, and improving product team productivity across five dimensions: satisfaction, performance, activity, communication, and efficiency.
Team Topologies
Team Topologies is an approach for organizing people in tech companies into effective teams. Most known for introducing four team types and three interaction modes, it aims to reduce team dependencies and manage cognitive load.
Product Trio
Product Trio is a product team leadership group consisting of three critical roles to deliver high-quality products: a product manager, a designer, and a tech lead.
Competent Product Managers
Competent product managers excel at guiding product teams by balancing customer needs, market trends, and business goals to create successful products.
Expectations agreement workshop
Expectation Agreement is a workshop method that allows having an honest conversation about the expectations between two people and how they see success behind their roles.
Stream-aligned teams
Stream-aligned are responsible for delivering direct product value to users and customers by working on certain value stream.
Three team interaction modes
Team interaction modes (as defined in Team Topologies) define three ways teams can interact with each other – collaboration, X-as-a-Service, facilitating.
True product designers
True Product Designers are creative problem-solvers who combine user research, design expertise, and business strategy to craft meaningful products.
Cross-functional teams
Cross-functional teams are teams permanently containing all roles necessary to deliver product work without relying on different teams. Typically that’s PM, Designer, Tech Lead and engineers.
Small (Pizza) Teams
Small (Pizza) teams are cross-functional groups of around 5-8 people who work together closely on a project, promoting quick decision-making and effective collaboration.
Enabling teams
Enabling teams help other teams (typically stream-aligned teams) with some expertise, for example adopting new technology.
Platform teams
Platform teams serve stream-aligned teams. They offer essential services, tools, and infrastructure for other teams to deliver work with high autonomy.
Team Charter
Team charter defines team mission statement, value stream they’re working on, their KPI list and the services they’re owning.
Stable teams
Teams that remain stable (do not change people because project change) for at least 6 months.
Manager’s README
A manager’s readme is a document where managers share their leadership style, expectations, and how they prefer to communicate with their team.
Onboarding checklist
An onboarding checklist is a list of tasks and steps to help new employees get settled, learn about the company, and understand their role effectively.
Keeper test
Keeper Test is a leadership practice where managers regularly evaluate if they would fight to keep a team member if they resigned tomorrow.
Performance Improvement Plan
A Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) is a formal process used to help employees improve their work performance by setting specific goals, providing feedback, and outlining support measures.
Team health checks
Team health checks are repeated assessments used to measure the performance and well-being of a team over time.
Communities of practice (guilds)
Community of practice (sometimes called guilds) groups members of specific specialization (for example: frontend, backend, product design) and provides standards and best-practices for the discipline.
Complicated-subsystem teams
The complicated subsystem teams own systems and services that require specialist knowledge, such as mathematical models, face-recognition engines, trading algorithms, NLP Engines, etc.
