Empowered
Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products
The leadership and coaching that turns teams into product powerhouses.
Empowered, the follow-up to Inspired, focuses on product leadership: how managers create the conditions for ordinary teams to build extraordinary products. Cagan and Jones cover coaching, staffing, product vision, team topology, and the difference between empowered teams and feature factories. It is aimed at leaders rather than individual contributors.
As a startup scales, the founder shifts from building product to building the people who build product, and this book is a direct guide to that transition. It explains how to lead through coaching and strategy rather than top-down feature mandates.
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As a startup scales, the founder shifts from building product to building the people who build product, and this book is a direct guide to that transition. It explains how to lead through coaching and strategy rather than top-down feature mandates.
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