**Book name:** Impact-First Product Teams **Author:** Matt LeMay **Publication Year:** 2025 **Read:** August 2025 --- ## 🚀 The Book in 3 Sentences 1. Your product team's goals should not be one step from the business goals 2. Recurrent retrospectives to adjust the plan towards the goal 3. Estimations are not predictions ## 🎨 Impressions ### How I Discovered It Listened to Lenny's Podcast episode - : [The one question that saves product careers | Matt LeMay](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts9ZvlkeWGs) And I liked his focus on impact: "If this is our business goal (x amount of new users) by December, how much (%, #) are we contributing every month based on what we're going to release?" ### Who Should Read It? A Product Manager who has worked on a "feature factory" or corporate team, so they can understand how hard is the mindset shift and have the communication tools to facilitate this on their teams. ### How the Book Changed–my life, behavior, thoughts or ideas–Me "If changing direction is part of the plan, then..." ## 🔟 Actionable Takeaways 1. a 2. b 3. c 4. d 5. e 6. f 7. g 8. h 9. i 10. j ## ❝ Quotes I’d save forever > [!quote] > Contents > [!quote] > Contents > [!quote] > Contents ## 📒 Other Notes ![[Impact-First Product Teams]]