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The Foxhole and the Forge
- High-performing product teams thrive on a well-functioning Triad, with engineering, design and product leadership working as one.
- The Triad faces immense challenges in the foxhole, with shifting priorities, performance expectations and deadlines.
- Triads that forge trust from the foxhole can thrive in the face of market conditions and changing customer expectations.
- Forging Triad-trust in the foxhole is the crucial aspect to create successful product outcomes.
- To build together, the team needs to understand each other's contribution, set a shared course, and deliver on commitments.
- Building together means trusting each other to do their part and recognizing how teams contribute to shared goals.
- The Triad must have a vision of the change their product will create and align team efforts on the impact that their product will have.
- The outcome of building a well-functioning Triad creates a positive tension generating a mix of agency and accountability.
- Trust is the bedrock of high-performing teams and essential to creating alignment.
- Positive tension turns team pressure into the forge of lasting product team relationships and the engine that keeps high-performing product teams aligned.
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