The Single Most Important Thing About Engineers Is What They Build

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The best companies consider the single most important thing are engineers doing more than just coding. They refer to it as this notion of an empowered engineer, an engineer that cares just as much about what they build as how they build it. In a good product team, in a good product company, the engineers don't have to build what the product manager says. If they don't agree, they don't build it.

Instead of being given a roadmap of features, an empowered team is given a problem to solve and they get to figure out the best way to solve that problem."

Today's clip is from episode 102 with Marty Cagan, the founder of the Silicon Valley Product Group and the author of “Inspired” and “Empowered”. In this clip, Marty explained the importance of building the right product and shared the two inconvenient truths about building products. Marty then elaborated on the traits a good product team has and how to create an empowered product team.

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Writing Inspired & Empowered - [00:00:51]
Building the Right Product - [00:05:36]
Two Inconvenient Truths - [00:06:57]
Traits of Good Product Teams - [00:11:19]
Engineering Involvement - [00:14:06]
Empowered - [00:15:57]

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