Product Area
Turf Type
A Product Area is part of a product built and maintained by the same group of people.
Turf Types: Team of Teams • House • Product Area • Business Unit
Purpose
A Product Area is part of a product that’s built and maintained by the same group of people. In many organizations, multiple teams work together on the same assets, and a Base would consist of more than one of these Product Areas. This Turf type is identical to an “ART” in the Scaled Agile Framework and “areas” in Large-Scale Scrum. If you don’t want a Product Area to be the same as an entire Base by default, you can identify it as a Turf instead.
Notes
It is possible for a Base to have Turfs of different types, and they may also overlap or contain each other in various creative ways. In each of these types, Crews are usually contained within one Turf, although it is easy to imagine examples where Crews might be shared across several Turfs.
We prefer to keep traditional management in the Governance Crew and outside of Turfs. When a Base grows so large that the number of people in it cannot be managed anymore by one Governance Crew, the best step is to split the Base (horizontally). We do not add a management layer inside the Base (vertically).
Rules / Constraints
We have not yet defined any rules or constraints.
“Uncharted territory is a good place to be in.”
(Source: Bo Burnham)
Visual MS is a Spanish business software development group with 114 employees organizing with different Product Type Turfs and scaling up via bases, leagues, and a crowd.
Exploring the application of unFIX patterns in the structure and dynamics of Visual MS group. Visual MS highlights the importance of psychological safety and the sense of belonging, two fundamental aspects in unFIX, creating a special synergy of the model with the organization.