Productivity
Transformed Summary & Review: Change How the Company Operates
Transformed summary: Marty Cagan and SVPG on leaving the feature factory for the product operating model. Change how you decide, discover, and…
Read Summary →Chris Jones
"The SVPG partner who helps leaders staff and coach empowered product teams."
Chris Jones is a partner at Silicon Valley Product Group. He coaches product, design, and engineering leaders on staffing empowered teams and replacing feature roadmaps with problems and outcomes. Empowered, written with Marty Cagan, is the field guide for that job.
Author of 2 books on TGR·Partner, Silicon Valley Product Group·Key themes: product leadership, coaching, empowered teams, transformation
Books by Chris Jones
Our in-depth summaries and reviews of his work
Productivity
Empowered Summary & Review: Coach the Team, Ship Outcomes
Empowered summary: Cagan and Jones on coaching product teams to own outcomes, not feature roadmaps. Give problems, then coach.
Read Summary →Key Ideas & Recurring Themes
Staff for character, then skill
Hire people who will kill a weak idea for the outcome. Discovery craft can be taught; care cannot.
The company has to digest the model
Inspired is the team, Empowered is the coach, Transformed is how the whole firm funds and judges work.
Notable Quotes
"Leadership is about recognizing that there's a greatness in everyone, and your job is to create an environment where that greatness can emerge."— Empowered (quoting Bill Campbell)
Book Author Chris Jones
Transformed Summary & Review: Change How the Company Operates
Transformed summary: Marty Cagan and SVPG on leaving the feature factory for the product operating model. Change how you decide, discover, and deliver.
Empowered Summary & Review: Coach the Team, Ship Outcomes
Empowered summary: Cagan and Jones on coaching product teams to own outcomes, not feature roadmaps. Give problems, then coach.