Inspired

How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

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Inspired (2017, Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John)

368 pages

English language

Published April 7, 2017 by Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John.

ISBN:
9781119387565

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5 stars (1 review)

Why do some products make the leap to greatness while others don’t?

Creating inspiring products begins with discovering a product that is valuable, usable, and feasible. If you can’t do this, then it’s not worth building anything.

• How do you decide which product opportunities to pursue? • How do you get evidence that the product you’re going to ask your engineering team to build will be successful? • How do you identify the minimal possible product that will be successful? • How do you manage the often conflicting demands of company execs, customers, sales, marketing, engineering, design, and more? • How can you adapt Agile methods for commercial product environments?

Product management expert Marty Cagan answers these questions and hundreds more as he shares lessons learned, techniques, and best practices from working for and with some of the most successful companies in the high-tech industry. You’ll find that there’s …

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A must-read for Product people

5 stars

This is a very good book on the structure and processes of a Product organization that incorporated Agile not only on a delivery level but on an overall organizational level. My personal highlight was the section about roadmaps and why (not) to use them and rather focusing on outcome. I also appreciate that in contrary to many other books on the topic, it also has a few chapters on transformational topics to create a switch.

Subjects

  • Consumer satisfaction
  • Customer relations
  • Production planning
  • New products