Empowered Teams
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Cagan: Empowered Product Teams Fail Primarily Due to Incompetent PMs
“That is the single biggest area empowered teams fall down. The product manager is ill-equipped or a nice way of saying incompetent.”
Feature teams operate as mercenaries, whereas empowered teams own outcomes
“In an empowered team, you are literally giving ownership responsibility to the team. And so that they build those skills. They build that confidence. They build those muscles in a feature team. They're literally just mercenaries doing what they're told.”