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Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

by Marty Cagan (2017)

★★★★½ 4.5/5

The definitive guide to modern product management practices

"The best teams are constantly generating ideas, testing them, and iterating."

— Marty Cagan

My Review

Cagan's product management framework emphasizes continuous discovery and adaptation - essentially an evolutionary approach to product development. The emphasis on cross-functional teams mirrors biological modularity.

Why It Matters

Product development as evolution - continuous variation, selection through customer feedback, and adaptation. Cagan's framework operationalizes biological thinking.

Key Ideas

  • Product teams must continuously discover what customers need
  • Cross-functional empowered teams outperform feature factories
  • Rapid iteration beats big-bang releases
  • Evidence trumps opinion

How It Connects to This Framework

Book 6's mutation and selection concepts applied to product development.

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