实现亚马逊的单线程领导者模式的回顾

I’d like to share the results of one of the most interesting management experiments I’ve been a part of. At a company I worked at recently, we implemented the Single Threaded Owner (STO) model from Amazon, where you have everyone on the team report to a single leader, including product, design, and engineering. You can think of the STO model as a more extreme form of cross-functional teams, where the team has everything it needs to deliver on its mission.

我想分享一下我参与过的最有趣的管理实验之一的结果。在我最近工作的一家公司，我们实施了亚马逊的单线程领导者（STO）模式，即让团队中的每个人都向一个领导者汇报，包括产品、设计和工程。你可以把STO模式看作是跨职能团队的一种更极端的形式，团队拥有完成任务所需的一切。

What is a Single Threaded Owner?

什么是单线程的领导者？

The idea of the Single Threaded Owner comes from Amazon. The name itself is based on the idea of a team focusing on a single thing at a time (i.e., instead of multi-tasking, you are focusing on a single thread of work or focus at a time). At Amazon, each team is supposed to have a clear area of ownership (a product area, based on a customer need) that they obsess about all the time. A leader of a team is called a “Single Threaded Owner”, or STO.

单线程老板的想法来自于亚马逊。这个名字本身是基于一个团队一次只关注一件事的想法（即，你不是多任务，而是一次只关注一条工作线或重点）。在亚马逊，每个团队都应该有一个明确的所有权领域（产品领域，基于客户需求），他们一直执着于此。一个团队的领导者被称为 "单线程领导者"，或STO。

The most common alternative to the STO model is what I call the “3 legged stool” model. In the 3 legged stool model, you have separate leadership hierarchies for Engineering, Product, and Design. Design sometimes reports to Product. But you then assemble a team of engineers, led by an Engineering Manager, with an embedded Product Manager and usually a Designer. The two or three of them become a sort of local leadership team.

STO模式最常见的替代方案是我所说的 "三条腿的凳子 "模式。在三条腿的模式中，你有独立的工程、产品和设计的领导层次。设计有时会向产品报告。但你会组建一个由工程经理领导的工程师团队，其中有一个产品经理，通常还有一个设计师。他们中的两三个人成为一种地方领导团队。

In the STO model, they actually all report in and are part of the same team. Everyone reports to the STO.

在STO模式中，他们实际上都报告，是同一个团队的一部分。每个人都向STO报告。

Single Threaded owners drive alignment and ownership

单线程车主驱动对接和所有权

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