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Five Product Model Concepts (Culture, Strategy, Teams, Discovery, Delivery)

The five areas Cagan organizes Transformed around, each backed by a set of specific principles rather than a fixed process:

  1. Culture — see Product Culture: Tolerance for Failure.
  2. Strategy — see Product Strategy and Continuous Strategy Feedback Loop.
  3. Teams — see Product Team (Five-Trait Definition) and Three Conditions for Empowerment.
  4. Discovery — see Discovery (Product Discovery Process) and Solution Discovery vs. Problem Discovery.
  5. Delivery — see Continuous Deployment Cadence and Telemetry / Instrumentation (Three-Level Monitoring).

Useful as an audit frame: check a company against all five areas independently rather than assuming that strength in one (e.g. a strong discovery practice) implies strength in the others — Cagan's claim is that the best companies are consistent across all five, and the rest are inconsistent.