Team

A group of Productboard members. Teams help organize your workspace by grouping people who work together.

What is a Team?

A Team is a named group of members in your Productboard workspace. Teams can be defined around functional areas (marketing, design, leadership), cross-functional product teams, Scrum teams, squads — really any configuration of members you need.

Teams can be assigned to entities like features and initiatives, assigned objectives, granted access to saved views, or @mentioned in comments. This makes it easy to see what each team is working on and communicate in context.

When to use it

  • Org structure synchronization — Mirror your organization's team structure from your HR system or IdP into Productboard.
  • Team-based routing — Assign features or initiatives to teams programmatically based on product area or component ownership.
  • Capacity planning — Query teams and their assigned work to understand team load and allocation.
  • Automated onboarding — Add new members to the right teams when they join the workspace.
  • Team-level reporting — Build dashboards that show roadmap progress, feature counts, or feedback volume per team.

Key fields

FieldDescription
nameTeam display name (unique, 1-255 characters)
handleUnique identifier used for @mentions (lowercase alphanumeric)
descriptionOptional description of the team's focus area (up to 10,000 characters)
avatarUrlTeam avatar image URL (read-only)
createdAtWhen the team was created
updatedAtWhen the team was last modified

Managing team membership

Update a team's members using PATCH /teams/{id} with these operations:

OperationDescription
addItemsAdd members to the team (idempotent — adding existing members is a no-op)
removeItemsRemove specific members from the team
setReplace the entire member list atomically
clearRemove all members from the team

Related objects

  • Member — individual members within the team
  • Feature — features assigned to this team
  • Initiative — initiatives assigned to this team

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