Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

by Marty Cagan

The most straightforward example of this is when both an experience product team and a platform team have the same objective because the platform team is expected to need to provide one or more new services to enable the experience product team. In this case, the teams will normally collaborate to establish a simple form of contract with each other in the form of an API, and then both proceed to figure out their sides, and then they will again collaborate on testing and delivery. Another form of shared team objective is when multiple teams temporarily combine their talents to solve a particularly hard problem. Especially on problems that benefit from a range of different skills brought to bear, bringing the teams together can often provide the knowledge and synergy required to quickly come up with an effective solution.

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