How to Build an Empowered R&D Team: Insights from Fangduoduo’s Internal Training

In the fast‑moving wave of internet and industrial‑internet transformation, Fangduoduo’s R&D team has spent years building and reflecting on the ideal research‑development organization. The conclusion is to gather smart, creative elites, create a suitable atmosphere and supportive environment, fully unleash their creativity, quickly sense user needs, and happily produce corresponding products and services.

For engineers, the R&D environment must be an “empowering” platform; only on such a platform can talented engineers continuously deliver value to users and become entrepreneurs within Fangduoduo’s ecosystem.

Such a supportive environment and platform can only be realized by the team itself, requiring strong self‑drive, self‑organization, and serious cultural alignment. The organization needs product managers, business designers, and product system designers with platform thinking and creativity, while engineers, system designers, and architects must combine technical expertise with business and product insight.

Building this empowering, platform‑centric organization is challenging because it involves not only engineering technology but also organization and culture. R&D infrastructure and system architecture are seen as the foundation that sustains a creative organizational culture; without them, agile iteration and lean‑startup experiences suffer.

In practice, the team has studied and adopted experiences from Google, Amazon, and other leading Silicon Valley companies, implementing the corresponding R&D culture and supporting systems, including DevOps, OKR, and Scrum methodologies. This article is extracted from an internal training keynote and is shared for reference.