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Published: 07 July 2009 11:41 am

- The Product Manager Team Composition and Communications survey was intended to discover the structure of a product manager's communications with the various teams involved in a product release.

The results of this survey pointed to the need for another survey that would capture drivers like organizational size and maturity, product lifecycle position, number of products managed, and competitive position of product in its category.

No conclusions were drawn from survey data. If you find the data interesting, please leave a comment. Thanks!

1. As a product manager, how many teams do you communicate with for each release?

	7
	6
	1
	3
	4
	6
	10
	3
	10
	15
	65
Average	6.5

2. Which of the following teams do you communicate with: 10 respondents

	Percent of Teams
Development	100
Marketing	90
Sales	90
Executive	90
QA	80
Technical Support	50
Training	40
Creative	20
Documentation	20
IT/Operations	20
Client Services	10
Professional Services	10
Field Teams	10
Customer Service	10
Offshore Development	10
Global Sales	10

3. For each team, how many members do each team have:

	Average		Min	Max
Development	8.30		2	30
Marketing	2.75		1	10
Sales	4.00		1	10
Executive	3.33		1	10
QA	4.63		1	15
Technical Support	2.60		0	5
Training	2.60		0	7
Creative
Documentation	0.83		0	3
IT/Operations
Client Services
Professional Services
Field Teams
Customer Service
Offshore Development
Global Sales

4. Which team members attend your development meeting:

		Categories	Others
Development		yes
Marketing			yes (2)
Sales			yes
Executive
QA		yes
Technical Support		yes
Training		no
Creative			yes (2)
Documentation		yes
IT/Operations
Client Services			yes
Professional Services
Field Teams
Customer Service
Offshore Development
Global Sales
Finance			yes
Project Management			yes (2)
VP of Dev			yes

Future surveys will incorporate the categories provided in the response to the Others question to enable better correlation.

5. Is your development team meetings separate from your Scrum meetings?

Yes	5
No	1
At Times	2

6. Do you attend the Scrum meetings?

Yes	1
No	4
At Times	3

7. Does marketing meet with you separately from sales?

Yes	5
No	1
At Times	4

8. Does sales meet separately with you from marketing?

Yes	4
No	2
At Times	4