Product development team (Product Developer)

Steps |Develop Team Data flow |Elements |Project Manager

The product development team is a key factor for any product success. However, the team is an important factor in any field. If you are a football player and you have a football match, you can’t win when you play for yourself. Every player in your team needs to play for the team and keep belief on each player. Only then your team achieve a decided goal or win the match. Like football, the product development team required those people who give the same effort in the team and keep belief on each people and achieved the goal.

In my point of view, Team fragmentation is one of the most important risks. It is the symptom caused by deeper cultural and organizational issues and lack of purpose. Team fragmentation is the situation when team members use their formal role, level, and responsibility area.

According to statistics, the main reason why projects fail is a lack of confidence. 75 % of respondents admit their projects are either always or usually “ doomed right from the start”. But the point of attention is why it happens and how can you change it?

For function properly, the team needs to know all the aspects of the process, their responsibilities, and duties, and believe in what they do. You can rely on, A team should be like that. An effective team you are confident about, one that you can look at and say, “we are going to change the world”.

If you are a product leader, you need an inspired, talented team who believe in your product vision and work with passion towards the shared goal.

Where Do You Start To Creating a Product Development Team

However, building a successful product development team may seem very difficult at first like any other big task that carries a lot of responsibility. Many questions are revolving around like where do you start? How do you know who you need and where you find them? First of all, write down what business task the team supposed to solve. What is the team’s role between Front-end or back-end development? As soon these question you have clear, start shaping the team.

you have only know how this process unfolds, but here are a couple of examples from our own experience.

We need to examine the existing code and understand the complexity of any potential changes if our task is to finish or fix a project started by someone else. For these type of cases, all we need at the start is to involve a front-end and a back-end developer.

You will have to call for a QA to backup the project if you need to make test cases. Meanwhile, you must have usually two back-end developer and one front-end developer, one QA, and one project manager if you are working with a project from scratch.

The next step is to explain the team’s goal or objectives, as the tasks and goal should transparent and doubt free to everyone. You can do it based on business objectives, and adapt all the processes within the team.

Steps for creating a successful product development team

Follow these steps if you want to create a successful development team that will help you achieve your goal.

1. Appreciate the power of teamwork
2. Find the right people
3. Learn to delegate
4. Track progress
5. Celebrate little victories

Appreciate the power of teamwork

Try to identify your employee’s skills and match their abilities. But also be aware that the team members appreciate each other’s functions in the team and how their personalities complement each other. The group’s attachment will give them the true power to focus on the common goal and reach it.

Find the right people

Try to choose those candidates who bring various experience and prospect to your project. If you cover more sides, your product will be better at launch and you will have to less change or improve in product later on.

Learn to delegate

Your job is basically is to ensure that your team can do theirs. After set goals and guidelines, let the team members do their things. Devolve authority and provide access to tools to your development team.

Track progress

Your work is to monitor progress and ensure that the project stays on track. You have to provide a means to share concerns, and regularly discuss the project’s status. Along this way, you will see if the team is working well or if you have to re-assign roles.

However, let the team overcome some of the difficulties of their own. Troubles bring any team closer together and build confidence among team members to deal with it.

Celebrate little victories

Don’t forget to give credit to team members if your team reaches a goal or better yet. This will encourage the team member to work better and improve team spirit. If you’re not really a celebratory type then arrange at least one meeting to thank those people who worked on your project.

Product Development Team Responsibilities: Maintaining Effectiveness

Creating a highly effective team is like just the tip of the iceberg. To maintain effectiveness on a certain level, the project manager should pay extra attention to how they structure workflow and arrange and assign tasks. We recommend getting familiarized with the Develop Team process.

Develop Team Process is a process that improves team member communication and interpersonal skills. As a result, you get a better team environment, enhanced performance, and highly motivated employees.

This process requires certain inputs (a project management plan, project documents etc.), outputs (plan and document updates, change requests, etc.), and tools & techniques (colocation, interpersonal and team skills, rewards, assessment, etc.)

Elements of the develop team process

Develop Team Dataflow

Develop Team is based on the project management plan, project documents and takes into account enterprise environmental factors and organizational process assets. Image shows some information which is used to manage the team and the project, control changes, update project documents and enterprise environmental factors and/or organizational process assets.

Let me remind you that the only project managers who inspire teams to achieve goals, always do their best, and meet the project’s objectives. Therefore they should be able to identify, build and lead teams. The primary responsibility of a project manager is to assemble effective project teams, like putting together a complicated jigsaw puzzle where every piece eventually falls into place.

The project manager should be able to create a perfect environment that is different to every project and facilitates teamwork. They should provide feedback, set challenges, reward, and provide opportunities that help the team to grow, improve and learn.

To maintain team spirit and effectiveness good project managers always have a set of skills.

• Open and effective communication
• Enhancing trust between team members
• Team-building opportunities
• Constructive conflict management
• Collaborative decision making and problem-solving

Development Team Roles: Who Does What

So, what’s your plan? What specialist and how much do you need? Although, we mostly work with Python. We have been around the block building a development team for that a couple of time.

We generally use the Scrum methodology to organize work processes. The Scrum word was borrowed from rugby (sports) to stress the importance of teamwork. The Scrum Guide defines three important roles:  

1. Product Owner: usually, a project’s key stakeholder
2. Scrum Master: a process owner who coordinates the team’s work.
3. Development Team: a group of developers that work on the project together.

According to Scrum Guide, Scrum Team include the Product Owner and Scrum Master. But the question arrives, who makes of the rest of the team? Here’s describe the minimum people required for a team working on a Python project:

• Team Lead with relevant experience.
• Back-end – Team Lead
• Back-end – Middle
• Front-end – Middle
• Quality Assurance
• Project Manager/Scrum Master
• Designer (depending on the project’s tasks)

Important rules to remember:

• No two leaders
• No people without experience in the domain.
• Involve those architects or leaders who analyze project at the initial stage.

How to choose a good team and a Project Manager

Do’s And Don’ts of Choosing a Team Lead

Do’s

For selecting the good team, first of all, you have to choose candidates with vast experience and the right work ethic. Take a closer look at people who have been employed by large or medium-sized companies who have worked for at least 5 years in the domain in question who value a good workplace culture.

Here, what exactly is this culture? It is one where every single person understands that is it okay to bodge under no circumstances. Where everyone is cooperative and company including all of its employees are open to modern approaches to organizing work processes.

Hence basically, the honorary role of those large and medium IT companies is to provide you with developers. Every large and small company has good developers that either got stuck on their career ladder or financially. These are exactly the people that you need for your team.

You need people that are experienced, ambitious and stress-resistant.

When you make the right choices in selecting your team members, you will be rewarded immensely. You will get a team that knows what to do and how to do. They are transparent in terms of doing business and has one single goal in their mind that is to create a great product.

Don’ts

The don’ts are pretty simple to understand by now. Most important thing is to don’t assign the Project Manager duty to people without any experience, or people coming from in-house development at rather small companies unless they have previously had an experience like, what we have described above.

Those people who are used to small projects or in-house development, no matter how good they are, don’t have the experience or outlook that will allow them to make correct big decisions. They will lack knowledge of the working culture of an effective team, which involves things like taking on a big responsibility, working agile, planning, testing, reviewing design and code, writing tests, etc.

Conclusion:

The product development team is a very important factor in creating a successful product. Never a product gets success without a perfect team selection. Therefore if you want to gets your product success and achieves your goals try to build perfect development team. In this article, we give the information to form a product development team. It helps you to select the team so that you can easily achieve your goal.

#Best of Luck#