Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products (Silicon Valley Product Group) Hardcover – 7 Dec. 2020

Another great book by SVPG and Mary Cagan. Worth reading Inspired first before reading Empowered. This book is simple to read, and gives you solid understanding of what 'good' looks like and is impactful for a product company. Great for inspiring or already are, product leaders.

What Product should be. A true recipe for success and happy customers.

I really enjoyed reading this book and enjoyed the inspiration it gave me.Generally there was a core theme throughout the book that each chapter reinforced. At a stage through the book I thought it got a little bit theoretical like I had a McKinsey consultant telling me how I should run my business but towards the end there were some good case studies that helped give a more practical look at how to apply some of these theories.I think as a book for some inspiration this is a good read but go in to it understanding that you should understand the full context of the book and then start to apply it to your own organisation. This is not the silver bullet that I’m sure many people hope it is (and will never exist).

Captivating!

Are you starting your career in software? Whether you are a software engineer or a product manager or a director or CTO, this book has something for you. If you have spent a decade in the software industry, a lot of things in the book might have been things you have experienced first hand.I love how the authors differentiate mercenaries Vs missionary attitudes.Empowered has been eye opener for me. I've always wondered why loved working in a company while hated another. It was definitely the empowerment that was the big difference.

Absolutely loved this read. In essence, Marty Cagan talks about the value of empowering product teams (several engineers, product manager, product designer) to serve customers with products that customers love, yet work for the business (by collaborating with stakeholders to come up with solutions that work). I particularly loved the fact that the majority of the book focused on coaching."Empowered product teams are all about giving teams hard problems to solve, and then giving them the space to solve them.""..this is really what I see in so many of the companies I visit. They have product teams that are more accurately feature teams, and they're slaving away-pounding out features all day-but rarely getting closer to their desired outcomes.""Regardless of the reason for reviewing your topology, you should optimize for the empowerment of the teams by focusing on the dimensions of ownership, autonomy, and alignment.""Your highest-order contribution and responsibility as product manager is to make sure that what engineers are asked to build will be worth building. That it will deliver the necessary results.""Coaching is no longer a speciality; you cannot be a good manager without being a good coach." - Bill Campbell"Moving the product teams from the subservient feature team model to the collaborative empowered product team model begins with trust"

It’s virtually a copy-paste of the other two, read one, and you’ve covered the whole trio. Worse, it leans on sweeping stories with no real, actionable takeaways, which I find downright frustrating.

Following the hugely successful “Inspired: How To Create Tech Products Customers Love” internationally renown product management guru Marty Cagan has just published “Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products”. Together with Chris Jones, Cagan captures how the best product companies approach technology and empower product teams.Cagan and Jones are probably in the best position to see a stark difference between the technology-powered products created by the best companies and the products created by most companies. There are three specific areas where this difference is the most apparent: the way in which technology is viewed, the role product leaders play and the purpose of product teams. The book elaborates on these area, offering helpful stories and pointers.I highly recommend “Empowered” to anyone who wants to truly understand what’s involved in product leadership, and what is imperative for any strong product company.