Marty Cagan Launches New Book Transformed & Discusses Product Operating Model at Lean Product Meetup

[@greacen]

Heck of a night- Thanks for setting that up Dan. Hope there are more companies interested in moving toward Marty's vision of empowered teams generating value through effective product management, engineering, designing.

[@filippxx]

Yeah, not gonna happen. The big corporations are full of teams working on the same thing, who don't even know about each other and are up to some executive decision to go forward

[@alexeyhimself]

Time codes: 0:00 Introduction 3:30 A few words about "Transformation" book 9:29 The Product Operating Model 15:25 3 Product Model Dimensions 16:39 1. How you decide which problems to solve? 19:53 2. How do you solve those problems? 26:37 3. How do you build solutions? 30:05 4 Product Model Core Competencies: Product Managers, Product Designers, Tech Leads and Product Leaders 35:05 5 Product Model Concepts: Product Culture, Product Strategy, Product Teams, Product Discovery and Product Delivery 35:25 1. Product Culture 37:19 2. Product Strategy 38:14 Examples of companies successfully transformed to Product Operating Model 40:56 SVPG books 41:21 Contacts 41:32 Question: do we need Project Managers? 45:11 Question: clarify role of the Data today? 47:40 Question: are we loosing the fight with Feature teams? 52:55 Question: how do you manage trade-offs between delivering immediate value and long term? 54:29 Question: explain what has happened to Product Management in Airbnb from your perspective? 57:28 Question: how can we create more products that change the world (like iPhone, ChatGPT, etc.) 1:00:52 Question: is Apple a top-down company? 1:03:12 Question: how to navigate conflicts between stakeholders demands on quick results and time consuming user research? 1:07:27 Question: give an example of good metrics to follow? 1:09:18 Question: how to make a pilot team successful? 1:12:01 Question: how to Engineering-Led org transform to a Product Operating Model? 1:14:10 Question: how do you structure incentives in a way that teams work more as a Product Model rather than Feature Model? 1:18:07 Question: how GenAI affects the roles in product teams? 1:23:01 Question: how to deal with ongoing pressure of layoffs? 1:25:45 Question: how to get CFO buy-in for a Product Model? 1:27:23 Question: how do you quickly evaluate if they (company, team, person) are the best or the rest? 1:30:14 Question: could you tell more about collocation of the team in a modern world? 1:35:24 Termination

[@KareenKircher]

Thank you for the excellent outline!

[@Neetish21]

Marty and Dan's bromance 🤟

[@treistab]

Which org is Marty referring to that trains Product Managers and was talking about "Product Management theater" at 49:50? Would love to see the link to the article he is referencing.

[@treistab]

Perhaps Scrum Alliance?