Inspired. (Inspired)
I read this book by Marty Kagan a couple of years ago when I wanted to learn a little more about product management, because it's all about product culture in general and product management in particular. I liked the book, but it is more like a number of individual essays, which the author after the fact put together on topics: Lessons from the best companies
- The right people.
- The right product.
- The right process.
- Culture. (It's strange that without the adjective "right")
In fact, the book was collected from a pile of articles by the author from his blog, so 350 pages 5 parts 67 chapters:) Of interest to me came the story about problems with roadmaps - I often use them myself and it was interesting to read what happens to them wrong. The point is that if you fix specific epics or tasks in roadmaps, then the flexibility in the work of teams is narrowed. It is better to indicate what results are expected from the results of these activities and how much the target metrics should change. Interestingly, my technical roadmaps were often about changing the team’s engineering practices, changing the application architecture, or large-scale refactoring, rather than just some set of epics that fit well into the author’s recommendations. It was also interesting to read about the importance of having a delivery manager in the team, who was transferred as an operational manager with technical skills, however, in the very chapter the translators made a remark that in Russia this is called a project manager, which is clearly not the case:) It was interesting to read about the role of Director of Technology or CTO:) It’s because I’m playing that role now. Not bad was painted about the design sprint or as the author called it a sprint at the stage of product research, since in the author’s opinion, this sprint solves not only design issues. In general, there is a lot of cool information in the book, so I recommend that you familiarize yourself with it not only to product managers, but also to all participants of product development teams.
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