If you're looking for ways to ensure the success of your projects/products. Here's 4 type people you should have in your team/organisation.

Client/Customer Focused Individuals - The voice of the client, at meetings and discussions, every new move, technology that you make, these are the people that will bring us back to "Is this better for our customers?", "Is this what our customers want?", "what's the unique selling point that will bring us more customers compared to other products in the market?", "what does the customer or client wants from us?"

These individuals are what we need so that what we are building can bring us closer to that goal.

Compliance Focused Individuals - The one that knows where all the T's and all the i's are crossed and dotted, what are all the risk involved and making sure that we're meeting our requirements from a compliance point of view. It's always good to have someone in the organisation that can constantly remind us on meeting the compliance requirements.

Project Focused Individual(s) - Whether it's internal or external projects, this is someone who knows the state of every single projects is at all times, someone that keep all the teams in the loop, the person that knows if a project has sidetracked (and steer the team back) or is meeting the necessary benchmarks. This person is the one that tracks where the team is at against the timeline or expectation or outcome.

Culture and Identity - The person who embodies all the behavioral and identity of the company. These individuals are that sets the standard of how our clients/customers sees us. The person that is the embodiment of the culture the company is trying to build so that internally and externally.

Are these fixed positions? Yes and no, sometimes, it is an extra set of skills/responsibility that one of the company's team member takes up.

Does your company have such individuals? How you do identify these individuals and how they fit into your organisation?