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Product Trio Framework
Accelerating roadmap clarity across squads and departments.
Delivery predictability, iteration over iteration
Against an 80% target, the first squad's predictability climbed steadily once product, design, and engineering leads began planning together in the same room.
2025 iterations, against an 80% predictability target
Squads’ adoption timeline
Challenge
A newly formed catering team faced alignment issues on priorities and roadmap decisions, resulting in low delivery predictability and unclear ownership among squads.
Approach
Introduced the Product Trio format
Brought in the format popularized by Teresa Torres, uniting UX design, product, and engineering leads in recurring joint planning sessions.
Piloted with the first squad
Beginning in October 2024, the first squad practiced it as a shared conversation platform for roadmap decisions.
Let adoption spread organically
A second squad adopted shortly after; a third and fourth followed on their own, without a mandate.
Outcomes
By June 2025 the first squad's roadmap was fully collaborative; by August it moved entirely out of individual PM slide decks.
Delivery predictability climbed from 55% (I1) to 66% (I2), 100% (I3), and 88% (I4) — against an 80% target.
A third and fourth squad adopted the format organically, without a mandate.
Discovery overhead and planning-session time dropped for distributed teams.
Growth opportunity
Keep the focus on future roadmap planning rather than current defects — Business Analysts should facilitate by setting expectations and redirecting the conversation toward upcoming priorities.
Key learning
“A framework doesn't need a mandate to scale — it needs to make people's work easier.”
Testimonials
“Alex introduced our squad to the Product Trio concept, and it's been instrumental in setting our roadmap and preparing features for development.”
— Kirsten Erich, Technical Product Engineer