Silicon Valley Product Group
With the release of TRANSFORMED, the good news is that we are hearing from more companies than ever before that believe they need to begin the journey to the product operating model. The challenge is that many of these companies need help, and are asking us for introductions to product coaches that can help them... The post Good Product Coach /...
By Marty Cagan and Marily Nika Recently I have co-authored a few articles allowing me to highlight different product coaches, and in this article, I’d like to highlight Marily Nika. Marily specializes in helping product teams create AI-powered products and services. She has a PhD in machine learning, and has had an impressive career building... The...
By Marty Cagan and Richard Russell Marty’s Note: Recently I co-authored an article on The Product Model at Spotify with one of Spotify’s early product coaches. This proved to be one of our most popular articles, and many people shared that it answered many questions they had about how that company really worked; what was... The post The Product...
By Lea Hickman and Marty Cagan Recently we’ve been writing about two very common and very problematic forms of theater: product management theater, and product leadership theater. We’ve been intentionally trying to shine a bright light on these behaviors, as we see them at the source of so many weak product organizations, causing a great... The post...
The previous article on Product Management Theater proved to be quite popular, and I’m grateful for all the positive feedback. But as expected, some people took it somewhat personally, and pointed the blame at their managers (the product leaders) or at their company’s executives. In my article, I wasn’t trying to assign any blame (other... The post...
Fair warning that for many of you, this article is going to feel like a heavy dose of tough love. I have been warning for several years that delivery team product owners, and feature team product managers are likely going to be facing a reckoning as companies realize that these roles are not what they... The post Product Management Theater appeared...