Silicon Valley Product Group

Marty Cagan, Chris Jones

Great product organizations don’t just “manage” work—they create conditions where teams can solve real customer problems with clarity, autonomy, and accountability. In this leadership guide, Marty Cagan and Chris Jones distill decades of lessons from top technology companies into a practical blueprint for empowering product management, product design, and engineering leaders to build the right environment for outcomes that matter. You’ll learn how to shift from feature-driven thinking to problem-driven teams, how to decide what problems belong to which teams, and how to coach effectively so people can do their best work. With its philosophy-forward, example-rich approach, the book shows how inspired teams can deliver solutions that work for customers and the business alike—turning leadership into a force multiplier rather than a bottleneck.