Product Passion

Posted by marty cagan on June 27, 2011

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One topic I’ve never written explicitly about is the need for product passion.  I’ve referenced it at the top of the list of traits for good product leaders, but it’s easy to take this for granted especially since the people I surround myself with professionally are generally very passionate about products.

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The Two Core Competencies

Posted by marty cagan on June 1, 2011

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Good product teams must be good at product discovery, which means they must get good at learning quickly.  They need to be able to zero in on the appropriate target customer, identify the key problems to solve for those customers, and typically the most difficult part of all, apply technology and user experience design to come up with good solutions that will solve those problems.

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