As part of diving into Product Management, I noticed that Marty Cagan of Silicon Valley Product Group was speaking at a Business of Software evening in London. Marty was recommended as a figure to follow by Brie, my colleague at Automattic, so I grabbed a ticket immediately.
Marty centred his talk around unleashing and empowering the engineer, and it was incredibly impressive and inspiring to listen to him. It’s always wonderful when you’re learning from someone with sufficient mastery of their subject that questions always trigger a well thought through response, backed up by multiple examples. Here’s my tl;dr for the evening:
My takeaways from @cagan last night: take good engineers, soak them in the business, expose them to customers; discover deeply; experiment frequently; work to metrics. #BoSInspired
— Simon Wheatley (@simonwheatley) April 26, 2018
(As a fully remote team we’re going to crack distributed product innovation & get back to you 😃)