Cognite has experienced significant growth and learned valuable lessons about product organization. Key insights include the importance of journeying towards an ideal organization, balancing velocity and scale, and requiring a unified operating model. The company stresses solving current problems rather than debate ideal methods. Their experience highlights that successful product organization adapts to its specific circumstances, pulling from diverse methods and personnel strengths. Premature structure and process implementation can limit productivity. Instead, a problem-focused, action-oriented approach is advised for handling continuous change.

Follow me on Twitter/X @GregerWedel Back two years ago, I wrote a blog post on the principles and biggest pitfalls of scaling a product organization charged to build a unified and complex product. Naturally, being employed at Cognite, what I had in mind was the Cognite Data Fusion platform product and its ~280 people product […]