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How do today's most successful tech companies - , Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla - design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Perhaps surprisingly, they do it very differently from the vast majority of tech companies. In Inspired, technology product management thought leader Marty Cagan provides listeners with a master class in how to structure and staff a vibrant and successful product organization and how to discover and deliver technology products that your customers will love - and that will work for your business.
With sections on assembling the right people and skillsets, discovering the right product, embracing an effective yet lightweight process, and creating a strong product culture, listeners can take the information they learn and immediately leverage it within their own organizations - dramatically improving their own product efforts. Whether you're an early stage start-up working to get to product/market fit or a growth-stage company working to scale your product organization or a large, long-established company trying to regain your ability to consistently deliver new value for your customers, Inspired will take you and your product organization to a new level of customer engagement, consistent innovation, and business success.
Filled with the author's own personal stories - and profiles of some of today's most successful product managers and technology-powered product companies, including Adobe, Apple, BBC, Google, Microsoft, and Netflix - Inspired will show you how to turn up the dial of your own product efforts, creating technology products your customers love.
The first edition of Inspired, published 10 years ago, established itself as the primary reference for technology product managers and can be found on the shelves of nearly every successful technology product company worldwide. This thoroughly updated second edition shares the same objective of being the most valuable resource for technology product managers, yet it is completely new - sharing the latest practices and techniques of today's most successful tech product companies and the men and women behind every great product.
PDF Inspired How to Create Tech Products Customers Love Second Edition Audible Audio Edition Marty Cagan Audible Studios Books
"If this is the only book you read on developing technical products you will be ill informed. There is really little new here from when I read the first edition several years ago. Most of the thinking and approach is still mired in a project perspective and delivering outputs. The emergent principles and practices of agile/lean product development are for the most part ignored. There is much better information out there. I would suggest Lean Enterprise or the Lean Product Playbook as much better jumping off points and references."
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Inspired How to Create Tech Products Customers Love Second Edition Audible Audio Edition Marty Cagan Audible Studios Books Reviews
- The second edition of Inspired is even better than the first (which used to be my favorite product management book).
It is the best articulation of how to be successful in product management and how to create successful products that I have ever read. It is impossible not to run into into insights about challenges you are having or have had as a product manager when reading it. (This can be a little creepy, how does he know about all these mistakes I have made, is he a psychic?)
Do you want to get a job as a product manager? Read and re-read Marty’s book and steal at least a few of his insights for the interview - you’ll sound like a genius.
Some of the topics that resonated for me (I’m sure there will be different ones for you)
-Product management is distinct from other essential roles design, engineering, product marketing, and project management (Chapter 1).
-Two inconvenient truths that often cause failed product efforts are at least half our ideas are just not going to work (customers ultimately won’t use it - which is why you need customer validation early in the process) and it takes several iterations to implement an idea so that it delivers the necessary business value (Chapter 6).
-The three overarching product development principles from Lean and Agile which help you create successful products are (Chapter 7)
-Risks should be tackled up front, rather than at the end.
-Products should be defined and designed collaboratively, rather than sequentially.
-Its is all about solving problems, not implementing features.
-You need a team of missionaries, not mercenaries to create the smallest possible product that meets the needs of a specific market of customers (Chapter 8,9).
-A product manager must bring four critical contributions to their team (Chapter 10)
Deep knowledge
1) of your customer
2) of the data
3) of your business and its stakeholders
4) of your market and industry
-Product managers (PMs) need product designers - not just to help make your product beautiful - but to discover the right product (Chapter 11).
-Typical product roadmaps are the root cause of most waste and failed efforts in product organizations (Chapter 22). It is all too easy to institute processes that govern how you produce products that can bring innovation to a grinding halt. You need to try to wean your organization off of typical product roadmaps by focusing on business outcomes, providing stakeholders visibility so that they know you are working on important items, and by eventually making high-integrity commitments when critical delivery dates are needed (Chapter 60). Part of this is managing stakeholders which includes engaging them early in the product discovery process ideally with high-fidelity prototypes (Chapter 61).
-Products should start with a product vision in which the product team falls in love with the problem, not the solution (Chapter 25).
- Strong product teams work to meet the dual and simultaneous objectives of rapid learning and discovery while building stable and solid releases in delivery. Product discovery is used to address critical risks (Chapter 33)
-Will the customer buy this, or choose to use it? (value risk)
-Can the user figure out how to use it? (usability risk)
-Can we build it? (feasibility risk)
-Does the solution work for our business? (business viability risk)
- PMs can’t rely on customers (or executives or stakeholders) to tell us what to build customer doesn’t know what’s possible, and with technology products, none of us know what we really want until we actually see it (Chapter 33).
- While has a culture of “write the press release firstâ€, Marty suggests PM should write a “happy customer letter first." Imagine a letter sent to the CEO from a very happy and impressed customer which explains why he or she is so happy and grateful for the new product or redesign. The customer describes how it was changed or improved his or her life. The letter also includes an imagined congratulatory response from the CEO to the product team explaining how this has helped the business (Chapter 36).
- Product managers need to consider the role of analytics and qualitative and quantitative value testing techniques (Chapter 54).
- What it really means for a PM to be the CEO of Product is testing business viability listening to Marketing, Sales, Customer Success, Finance, Legal, BD, Security, etc. before building the product (Chapter 56).
-Establishing a strong product culture requires (Chapters 66-67)
-Innovation culture compelling product visions, strong product managers, empowered business and customer savvy teams product teams often in discovery
-Execution culture urgency, high-integrity commitments, accountability, collaboration, results orientation, recognition, strong delivery management, frequent release cycles
(and it is hard to do both) - If this is the only book you read on developing technical products you will be ill informed. There is really little new here from when I read the first edition several years ago. Most of the thinking and approach is still mired in a project perspective and delivering outputs. The emergent principles and practices of agile/lean product development are for the most part ignored. There is much better information out there. I would suggest Lean Enterprise or the Lean Product Playbook as much better jumping off points and references.
- Product Management and development is critical to organizations in the digital world. Understanding the approaches, steps and techniques related to product development is critical. This book provides a detailed, direct and no-nonsense approach that people who are new to product management need.
This is the book is the best one I have found for people wanting to know what it really takes -- the steps in building a new technology product.
This is particularly helpful as it is easy to think of product management and development to be more art and inspiration than science and hard work. This is because much of the hard work is hidden from engineers, marketers and others. There is a lot of hard work, can't be skipped steps and complexity associated with product development and this book brings all of this out.
This book is more of a guide and methodology book that tells you like it is rather than telling you a story. This can make a first reading a little taxing, but the real value is in coming back to this text to plan a product development project, check your progress and know what comes next. - This book has a lot of good information about product management. In my opinion it’s mostly theory of a perfect product management world, I feel like it was written for a startup with millions of venture capital to spend on an iPhone app with thousands of customers.
As a product manager who is just starting in the role, I find it useful as one could find useful a history book, I was expecting more information about the actual day to day of a product manager. - Though this book is ideal for product managers it is also excellent for anyone involved in building products. While the first book helped us shape our approach to building products at Workiva, the second edition has helped to clarify and refine many of those processes as we have scaled. I think this is also a great book for engineers and engineering managers as it captures many other aspects of how outstanding product teams work together. I always appreciate Marty's clear and concise writing style and his ability to break down complex concepts into very simple ideas and patterns. The included profiles of some outstanding product people help to show how these principles work in real life and are not just abstract concepts. This is the best book I have seen to date on building great products and great product teams!
- Best career-based book I've ever read. Sub-topics are clearly divided into short chapters that makes it easy to read and absorb. There's a *lot* of chapters, but they're short, so they're super easy to digest. I love this format! Also, Marty clearly knows his stuff as he describes the importance of each and every single part of the cogs that makes a good product team (and PM) tick. He writes in a way that is clear, concise, and contains all the information you need to know. I've read this book twice in the past two weeks and I still find there's so much to absorb. I would buy a copy for all my friends.
