A mental model to build a strong product organization

Have you ever worked on a high-performing team? Have you experienced the joy of working in a flow with other people and delivering great results? Companies and their leaders dream about this state when describing their teams, but they rarely know how to support them to achieve high performance.

While working in various performing, low-performing, and high-performing teams, I observed many patterns, which I translated into a model I use to set up my teams for success.

Disclaimer: What I describe in this article is not a one-week project. It takes time, and it is a tough journey full of roadblocks to overcome. And once you are 80% there, you will start from scratch, because you will figure out that no team performs constantly at a high level, and while you remove roadblocks, new ones are popping up all around you.

Don’t expect performance - in the first place.

I frequently encountered org…