Delivering value?

The ways that we usually set up “cross-functional” teams doesn’t really help us with this, but it’s crucial for each member and role in a product development team to ask these questions on a regular basis:

• “How are our features doing in the production?”
• “Are they meeting users’ needs?”
• “How do we know that that’s the case?”
• “Are they solving the problem that they were supposed to solve?”
• “Is the work and effort we’re putting in delivering value or we’re just spinning our expensive wheels?”

In the same way that quality is not a responsibility of a single role or a person, making sure we’re delivering value is also not a responsibility of a Product Manager/Product Owner, but a whole team.