How the best product teams work

Tim Woods
14 min readJul 4, 2021

The quality distribution of product teams probably resembles something like a bell curve. Most teams are in the middle: average, sometimes doing good things, sometimes not. A smaller portion are plain terrible. Then there’s the small portion at the front of the curve who are consistently excellent, and seemingly doing everything right.

So, what’s the difference between these top product teams and the rest?

The distribution of product teams

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Tim Woods

Building Product at TryHackMe. Previously YouCanBookMe, PatSnap, HYPE Innovation, Imaginatik, IBM. Love all things PM. South Coast, England.