The Politics of Pilot Teams
https://www.svpg.com/the-politics-of-pilot-teams/
First and foremost, the purpose of a pilot team is to prove to your product organization, your leaders, and, in some cases, your investors, that the product model can deliver the business results you need.
But we need to do this quickly. We can’t wait years for an entire organization to transform.
You can consider a pilot team as the MVP for a full transformation. It’s just enough to address the risks, and much faster than the whole eventual effort.
A pilot team lets the company learn quickly (it’s usually a quarter or two), inexpensively (it’s just one or two teams), and safely (without putting the bulk of the company’s revenue at risk), just what it means to move to empowered product teams operating in the product model.
But there are several important secondary purposes as well.