Your Team is Smarter Than You Are: Why Autonomous Product Teams Work Better

I’ve always argued that product management is a team sport. But as soon as you have more than one team in an organisation and you need them to interact with each other, you introduce friction. This friction between teams is why we have libraries full of project management books and methodologies, inboxes and outboxes, dependency management, and so much more. All friction. And friction kills momentum. Friction kills speed.

If you instead remove dependencies between teams and introduce autonom...