Product Assignment: Product Teammate

This Assignment is different. There is no specific accountability other than to uphold the principles and values that come with being a member of Product.

We hold ourselves to a very high standard, and this Assignment is intended to be an acknowledgment of that fact. The things we all must do to call ourselves Product People.

• We are experts of our Product...not just our squad's functional area
• We are students of the game... meaning we see process not as a set of commandments to be followed, but as guidelines that help us achieve our actual goals. Speaking of goals...
• We are knowledgable about our business... meaning we know enough about our business and the market in general to make informed decisions
• We know this is a team sport... meaning collaboration is a skill we seek to hone every day
• We are outcome-focused... meaning we don't seek to just build software... we seek to make a difference... to change human behavior and deliver real results.

This is not all of what it means to be on Product... but, it is a solid start. As such every member of Product must have this Assignment, and in the spirit of the 80:20 rule, let's set this to 20% for all positions. It'll remind us that the growth framework does NOT aim to capture 100% of your time, energy, or thoughts. The hope is that setting 20% of your job description to being something that does NOT have an observable outcome, it'll reinforce this idea.