Marty Cagan and his authorship has brought immense clarity to product world at a global scale. We can easily say that there was a world before the book Inspired, and after.
Marty Cagan advocates for such a broad range of Product Management best practices, that it would be hard to sum them up in a single sentence.
What _doesn’t_ work is blindly “empowering” teams that don’t have the skills or expertise to be empowered.
Having a good handle of strategy is a key prerequisite.
Being aware of The Product Trio and its central function in addressing The Four Big Risks.
Doing Continuous Discovery to get ahead of those risks _collaboratively_ by rapidly testing assumptions. (Teresa Torres’s work goes deep in the area of client-centric Continuous Discovery.)
So yes, empowered teams is big, but there’s so much more.
In general your argument applies to all kinds of best practices, not just the ones recommended by Marty.
We humans tend to see best practices as a rules book that we need to fully apply, instead of looking at best practices as building blocks that we can mix and match from to build something new that works for our needs and culture
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Marty Cagan advocates for such a broad range of Product Management best practices, that it would be hard to sum them up in a single sentence.
What _doesn’t_ work is blindly “empowering” teams that don’t have the skills or expertise to be empowered.
Having a good handle of strategy is a key prerequisite.
Being aware of The Product Trio and its central function in addressing The Four Big Risks.
Doing Continuous Discovery to get ahead of those risks _collaboratively_ by rapidly testing assumptions. (Teresa Torres’s work goes deep in the area of client-centric Continuous Discovery.)
So yes, empowered teams is big, but there’s so much more.
I fully agree!
In general your argument applies to all kinds of best practices, not just the ones recommended by Marty.
We humans tend to see best practices as a rules book that we need to fully apply, instead of looking at best practices as building blocks that we can mix and match from to build something new that works for our needs and culture