Building teams with a purpose in mind

Every team is different. It's important to build a team with people that resonate with the purpose.

Intro

Building teams is always an interesting challenge. You can’t just put Senior people from different backgrounds and mindsets together and expect that everything will work out. You need to have people in the team that complement each other and have the right mindset.

It’s important to understand that one person can thrive in one type of team, but can ultimately be miserable in another team. That’s why we need to build teams with purpose in mind.

Let’s start with the overview of different options.

What are the different types of teams?

There are many different types of teams, especially in larger companies, some are a lot more operational and plan their work based on requests. Others are a lot more autonomous and work to build the best possible solutions for our customers.

In this article, we are focusing on teams that are either fully engineering teams or they are cross-functional and contain engineers.

Some of the different types of teams are:

• Product Teams

Teams that are working on new p…