by Marty Cagan | Jun 30, 2020
SVPG Partner Christian Idiodi has built a powerful reputation over the years for developing very strong product teams. In his past companies, he created his own new-employee bootcamp that is an excellent example of coaching ordinary people into extraordinary teams. I...
by Marty Cagan | Jun 3, 2020
For those that haven’t yet met Christian, he joined as an SVPG Partner about a year ago. He is one of the most effective and inspiring product leaders I have ever met, but even more than that, he’s one of the most exceptional human beings I know. So many...
by Marty Cagan | May 22, 2020
My last article on Meaningful Transformation got a very good response from people, and several people wrote to ask what product looks like in companies that have successfully transformed? I decided to answer this by sharing one of my favorite chapters from my...
by Marty Cagan | May 14, 2020
Now that more people have a clearer understanding of the differences between feature teams and empowered product teams, by far the most common question I get is how to move to true product teams? This is essentially a question of transformation. Most companies have...
by Marty Cagan | Apr 20, 2020
During these work-from-home times, I’ve been doing a lot of video-based AMA’s (Ask Me Anything). It gives me a break from my writing, and I enjoy the questions. Every so often I get a question that really makes me think, and that happened recently, and is the...
by Marty Cagan | Mar 30, 2020
I’ve been spending a good amount of time this past couple of years – and especially the past few weeks – thinking about the root causes of the chasm between the best product companies and the rest. Most of you know that my writing is intended to be very practical and...
by Chris Jones | Nov 13, 2019
Over the past months, SVPG has published several articles on coaching product managers. Many of these have focused on how to cultivate the right PM mindset: things like customer-centricity, true collaboration, and thinking like an owner rather than an employee, to...
by Marty Cagan | Oct 24, 2019
In this article I want to continue with the series on coaching, this time to help develop the critical trait of customer-centricity in the product manager. If you ask a CEO or a product manager if they care about their customers, you’ll usually get some sort of...
by Marty Cagan | Sep 3, 2019
I promise this will not be one of those navel-gazing exercises. This is going to be a very pragmatic article about a critical and fundamental topic. One of the consequences of the popularity of the earlier article on empowered product teams is that it uncovered...
by Marty Cagan | Aug 29, 2019
This article is certain to upset many people. I’m sorry for that, but the degree of ongoing noise and confusion surrounding the role of product at tech companies is only getting worse. Moreover, I see the issues and problematic behaviors getting institutionalized in...
