Three Product Teams

John Cutler's short piece distinguishing three kinds of product teams — delivery teams, product teams, and what he calls business-model / outcome teams — by the scope of what they are responsible for. The distinction is useful because most organisations have one kind and assume they have another, and the resulting misalignment produces most of the friction around product teams. For product direction it is a compact diagnostic. Cutler's broader "Beautiful Mess" substack is one of the more consistently thoughtful places on the internet for product team design; read widely there. Pair with Cagan's Empowered for the broader argument.