I've worked in a company before where all R&D teams need to be sponsored by other product teams. I don't have any opinions for or against this approach. Just my

I've worked in a company before where all R&D teams need to be sponsored by other product teams. I don't have any opinions for or against this approach. Just my observations Pros: * R&D teams don't veer off into random tangents and are focused on delivering something useful * More accountability and a closer connection to their end customer (internal or external) Cons: * you end up with more management layers and a lot more meetings to convince teams to fund you * getting budget to maintain stuff is difficult to sponsor * Empire building and a lot of infighting between competing teams * product teams won't fund longer-term projects and moonshot experiments so you have to create a separate product team just for that