I'm a product manager and have a technical background, but pretty much had to figure out how structures work using trial and error. I gave up the first few times I tried to build one because I just didn't get what was going on.

It wasn't until I had a need to look at data across teams in a specific way, that without a structure, would have resulted in a ton of duplicated effort in Excel, that I forced myself to figure out how they work. At that point, I also discovered the formula columns and found that documentation to be very helpful, but the general documentation on creating/setting up structures did not help me get started easily.

A few things I still don't understand and just have to resolve through trial and error are: how does the order of automations impact other automations, why does it seem like sometimes I can move certain things ahead of each other but not others, and what does "consider other groups do". I spent a huge amount of time figuring out the right way to get rid of duplicates and in the end realized we needed two structures to make this work.

At this point I consider myself definitely beyond basic usage: I have a structure that spans multiple teams, has multiple levels of groupings, it uses many custom formulas, and it creates a hierarchy that aggregates all the work our engineering teams are doing up to a top-level business plan. But, there are still a lot of things I kind of just have to guess on because it's not really clear what they will do.