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The Postman Data Team’s Hub-and-Spoke Model
Designing a team structure for scalability, efficiency, innovation, and communication
The structure of a team is crucial to its success. Structure helps us determine the various communication patterns that enable a team to contribute to the organization’s overall growth. In this blog post, we’re going to talk about the structure of Postman’s data team, which includes our data engineers and data analysts.
Before going ahead, let’s look at the two team types we have at Postman:
- Type 1: A team that builds a user-facing product or feature
- Type 2: A team that works behind the scenes and helps Type 1 teams reach their goals
At Postman, we call Type 2 teams “foundation teams.” Foundation teams are the heart and soul of Postman; they help cater to the overall organization by building easy-to-use and highly effective platforms and internal products. Hence, the communication mechanisms (powered by the structure) of the foundation teams have a huge impact on the value that those teams can add to the organization.
The data team is one of these foundation teams, and we’ve adopted some specific approaches to help us achieve our goals.
