A worked example readers can copy before adapting to their own team.
Source: Signal Architecture by Samuel Awonorin
Identity
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Team: Product Management - Payments Platform
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Purpose: Translate customer, commercial, regulatory, and operational needs into clear product decisions.
Boundaries
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What we own: product priorities, roadmap trade-offs, customer-impact decisions, release scope, product requirements.
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What we do not own: engineering estimates, legal interpretation, commercial pricing approval, support staffing decisions.
Routes
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Urgent route: customer-risk, compliance, revenue, or executive-commitment items enter the escalation channel.
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Normal route: discovery and prioritization requests enter the product intake board.
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State home: product decision log, roadmap board, release notes, and customer-impact register.