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Product Operating Model journeys with product-led teams
We have invited Pavi to reprise his present his popular LAST Conf Melb 2025 session as part of the Signal Not Noise online series.
Product, Design and Engineering leadership trios are the enablers of value creation in software teams. They are supposed to lead Product Engineering teams of missionaries over mercenaries to discover and build product value. So, what does it mean to be a product-led team in this context and how do we setup teams and prod-trios for success?
There are many types of product teams around us: “vanilla”, agile, value stream, product engineering, etc. In this context, what does it mean to be a “product-led” team? Product Managers and Engineering Leaders have one of the most important roles as facilitators and influencers in enabling product-led teams while navigating the operational and organisational needs.
Taking a case-study journey though real-world examples in startup, scale-up and big-tech, this topic explores the practices and techniques that were successfully adopted by product-trios to enable teams to achieve product outcomes over outputs. From bootstrapping new teams to growing existing teams, the topic elaborates on navigating the strategic context with situational awareness, collaboration models, selection of practices and techniques. lessons learnt, and personal growth areas for product and engineering leaders.
Pavi De Alwis is a software engineering lead with 20 years hand-on experience building internet-scale software products. These days he helps others cut code, engineer systems, lead teams and wear different hats as needed to get-stuff-done while practicing XP and relevant agile techniques.
In recent years Pavi has been leading teams in Afterpay and Block to build new products as well as grow and expand the engineering organisations. Some of this involved forming new teams and engineering orgnisations, launching products into new markets, bootstrapping a Bank in 9 months (and then shutting it down), decoupling / microservicing / re-platforming while enabling product growth on the hypergrowth rocketships and more importantly growing product engineers and teams.
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