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.
Listen out for:
- 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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