By design, each function is involved and aligned from a product's inception to its launch. ... The team should resemble a three-legged stool, in which each leg represents one of the three areas that helps build a product.

What is 3-legged stool in project management?

The 3-Legged Stool Approach To a Complex Project

Each must contribute in equal measure in terms of skills, effort, and involvement. And, all three must equally shoulder the complexity of a project. No one department can “offload” the complexity to another, expecting it to digest and hand over a “simple” to-do for them.

What does the three-legged stool represent?

The 3-Legged Stool Metaphor

Social Security benefits were said to be one leg of a three-legged stool consisting of Social Security, private pensions and savings and investment. The metaphor was intended to convey the idea that all three approaches were needed to provide stable income security in retirement.