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Imogen brings more than 10 years of experience in print and digital to her role as Director of Content Strategy for Mind the Product. The core of her experience comes from 10 years working as an editor for Bauer Consumer Media, a division of Europe’s largest privately-owned publishing group, and as Head of Content for Benivo, an award-winning startup.

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<p>In this <a href="https://mtpdevwpe.wpengine.com/tag/sunday-rewind/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sunday Rewind</a>, we revisit 2015, a product great – <a href="https://svpg.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Silicon Valley Product Group</a> founder, Marty Cagan – and the topic of product failure.</p>
<p>Marty shares 10 reasons why most products fail. In the firing line? Relying on the wrong sources for ideas, product roadmaps, focusing on outputs rather than outcomes, to name just a few.</p>
<figure id="attachment_26244" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-26244" style="width: 799px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://mtpdevwpe.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Marty-Cagain-speaking-at-mtpcon-San-Francisco-in-2015.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-26244 size-full" src="https://mtpdevwpe.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Marty-Cagain-speaking-at-mtpcon-San-Francisco-in-2015.jpg" alt="Marty Cagan speaking about product failure at #mtpcon San Francisco in 2015" width="799" height="533" srcset="/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Marty-Cagain-speaking-at-mtpcon-San-Francisco-in-2015.jpg 799w, /wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Marty-Cagain-speaking-at-mtpcon-San-Francisco-in-2015-300x200.jpg 300w, /wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Marty-Cagain-speaking-at-mtpcon-San-Francisco-in-2015-768x512.jpg 768w" sizes="(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-26244" class="wp-caption-text">Marty Cagan speaking on stage at #mtpcon San Francisco in 2015</figcaption></figure>
<p>Using the #mtpcon San Francisco stage as a platform to warn of these common root causes of failure, Marty explains that these ways of working are a million miles away from how the very best product teams operate. Those teams, he tells us, embrace continuous discovery and deliver to set a clear vision based on customer problems.</p>
<p>To get a taste of how Marty defines each problem, and how he implements a successful approach in the teams he works with, <a href="https://mtpdevwpe.wpengine.com/video-the-root-causes-of-product-failure-by-marty-cagan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">watch The Root Causes of Product Failure</a>.</p>
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