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Inspired by Marty Cagan — WisdomDeck honest review
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Inspired

by Marty Cagan

Cagan's guide to how strong tech companies discover and deliver products customers love: empowered product teams, continuous discovery, prototypes before engineering, and the product manager's real job. The second edition is the standard text for product management.

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you are a product manager or founder building software and want the discipline done properly.

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you are outside tech; the lessons translate poorly.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Discover before you deliver.
  2. Teams should be given problems, not feature lists.
  3. Prototype cheaply; build expensively.

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Test your next feature idea with a prototype on five customers before writing code.

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The product-management standard.

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