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Books grouped by the job you are doing or the problem you are solving.
Inspired
Cagan
Continuous Discovery Habits
Torres
Escaping the Build Trap
Perri
Books for Product Managers
Ten books that cover the whole job, ordered so the first one is the one to read if you only read one.
11 books, starting with Inspired
The Professional Product Owner
Jocham
Scrum: A Pocket Guide
Verheyen
Essential Scrum
Rubin
Books for Product Owners
The reading that matches the accountability as the Scrum Guide defines it, including what the PSPO exams assess.
9 books, starting with The Professional Product Owner
Shape Up
Singer
The Scrum Guide
Sutherland
The Kanban Guide
contributors
Free Product Management Books
Thirteen books on product, agile and delivery that the publisher or the author gives away in full.
13 books, starting with Shape Up
Scrum: A Pocket Guide
Verheyen
Coaching Agile Teams
Adkins
The Great ScrumMaster
Šochová
Books for Scrum Masters
Books on the accountability, the coaching stance behind it, and the organisational work that takes up most of the role.
11 books, starting with Scrum: A Pocket Guide
Continuous Discovery Habits
Torres
The Mom Test
Fitzpatrick
Interviewing Users
Portigal
Books on Product Discovery
How to find out what is worth building, from interview technique through to running experiments that settle a question.
9 books, starting with Continuous Discovery Habits
Good Strategy Bad Strategy
Rumelt
Playing to Win
Martin
Escaping the Build Trap
Perri
Books on Product Strategy
Choosing where to play and what to leave out, then writing it down in a way a team can act on.
9 books, starting with Good Strategy Bad Strategy
The Pyramid Principle
Minto
Crucial Conversations
Patterson
Storytelling with Data
Knaflic
Books on Communication for Product People
Writing, presenting, negotiating, and having the conversation you have been avoiding.
8 books, starting with The Pyramid Principle
Product Management in Practice
LeMay
Inspired
Cagan
The Mom Test
Fitzpatrick
Books for New Product Managers
A first ninety days reading list, ordered so each book answers the question the last one raises.
8 books, starting with Product Management in Practice
Lean Analytics
Yoskovitz
Outcomes Over Output
Seiden
Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments
Xu
Books on Product Metrics and Analytics
Choosing what to measure, reading the result honestly, and forecasting without pretending to certainty.
9 books, starting with Lean Analytics
Empowered
Jones
The Making of a Manager
Zhuo
Radical Candor
Scott
Books on Product Leadership
Coaching, staffing, strategy and structure, for people who lead product teams rather than products.
9 books, starting with Empowered
Cracking the PM Interview
Bavaro
Decode and Conquer
Lin
Swipe to Unlock
Agashe
Books for Product Manager Interviews
Preparing for product sense, estimation, metrics and behavioural rounds without memorising scripts.
6 books, starting with Cracking the PM Interview
Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability
Vacanti
Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business
Anderson
Making Work Visible
DeGrandis
Books on Agile Delivery and Flow
Flow metrics, work in progress limits and the engineering practices that decide how fast a change reaches a user.
9 books, starting with Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability
Project to Product
Kersten
Escaping the Build Trap
Perri
Outcomes Over Output
Seiden
Books for Project Managers Moving Into Product
The shift from delivering an agreed scope to owning an outcome, and the reading that makes it concrete.
8 books, starting with Project to Product
Sooner Safer Happier
Smart
Project to Product
Kersten
The Age of Agile
Denning
Books on Agile Transformation and Scaling
Changing how an organisation funds, structures and governs work, once single team practice is no longer the constraint.
10 books, starting with Sooner Safer Happier
User Stories Applied
Cohn
User Story Mapping
Patton
Impact Mapping
Adzic
Books for Business Analysts
Elicitation, requirements that survive contact with a delivery team, and the analysis that decides what gets built.
9 books, starting with User Stories Applied
Swipe to Unlock
Agashe
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Kleppmann
Accelerate
Kim
Books for Technical Product Managers
Enough systems knowledge to hold your end of an engineering conversation, plus the delivery and platform material the role runs on.
9 books, starting with Swipe to Unlock
The Design of Everyday Things
Norman
Don't Make Me Think
Krug
Lean UX
Seiden
UX and Design Books for Product Managers
The design thinking product people are expected to have, from usability fundamentals to defending a decision in a review.
9 books, starting with The Design of Everyday Things
Product-Led Growth
Bush
Hacking Growth
Brown
Hooked
Eyal
Books on Growth and Product-Led Growth
Acquisition, activation and retention as one system, for teams where the product carries the go to market.
9 books, starting with Product-Led Growth
Building Products for the Enterprise
Gaines
Obviously Awesome
Dunford
Crossing the Chasm
Moore
Books for B2B and Enterprise Product Managers
What changes when the buyer is not the user, the sales cycle runs for months and procurement has an opinion.
9 books, starting with Building Products for the Enterprise
The Mom Test
Fitzpatrick
The Lean Startup
Ries
The Lean Product Playbook
Olsen
Product Books for Startup Founders
Finding a market, testing it cheaply, and building a first product without a product team behind you.
11 books, starting with The Mom Test
Product Roadmaps Relaunched
Lombardo
Escaping the Build Trap
Perri
Outcomes Over Output
Seiden
Books on Roadmapping and Prioritisation
Deciding what to do next, writing it down so it survives contact with stakeholders, and holding the line when everything is urgent.
9 books, starting with Product Roadmaps Relaunched
Making Things Happen
Berkun
How Big Things Get Done
Gardner
A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide), Seventh Edition
Institute
Books on Project Management
The practitioner accounts, the official standards and the research on why projects overrun, in one ordered list.
10 books, starting with Making Things Happen
Managing Successful Programmes
AXELOS
Program Management for Improved Business Results
Rush
Project to Product
Kersten
Books for Programme Managers
The standards, the operating models and the flow work behind running several teams towards one outcome.
10 books, starting with Managing Successful Programmes
Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art
McConnell
How Big Things Get Done
Gardner
Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability
Vacanti
Books on Estimation and Forecasting
Putting a number on work nobody has done yet, and saying honestly how confident you are in it.
8 books, starting with Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art
Identifying and Managing Project Risk
Kendrick
Waltzing with Bears
Lister
How Big Things Get Done
Gardner
Books on Project Risk Management
Finding risks before they arrive, sizing them honestly, and building a plan that survives the ones you missed.
7 books, starting with Identifying and Managing Project Risk
The DevOps Handbook
Willis
Continuous Delivery
Farley
Accelerate
Kim
Books on DevOps and Continuous Delivery
The pipeline, the research and the operating model behind changing software safely and often.
8 books, starting with The DevOps Handbook
Swipe to Unlock
Agashe
The Design of Web APIs
Lauret
Practical SQL
DeBarros
Books for Non-Technical Product Managers
Seven books that close the gap between understanding your product and understanding what it is made of.
7 books, starting with Swipe to Unlock
Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments
Xu
Experimentation Works
Thomke
Testing Business Ideas
Osterwalder
Books on Product Experimentation
Running tests that produce a decision, from the statistics of an online experiment to building a company that runs thousands.
8 books, starting with Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
Wheelan
The Art of Statistics
Spiegelhalter
Thinking with Data
Shron
Books on Statistics for Product Managers
Reading a number honestly, saying what it actually supports, and presenting it so the decision gets made.
8 books, starting with Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
Prediction Machines
Goldfarb
The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book
Burkov
AI Engineering
Huyen
Books on AI and Machine Learning for Product Managers
Enough of the economics, the engineering and the failure modes to make good calls about what to build with a model.
8 books, starting with Prediction Machines
Fundamentals of Software Architecture
Ford
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Kleppmann
The Design of Web APIs
Lauret
Books on Software Architecture for Product Managers
The structural decisions that decide what your product can do next, explained for the person planning around them.
7 books, starting with Fundamentals of Software Architecture
Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business
Anderson
Making Work Visible
DeGrandis
Actionable Agile Metrics for Predictability
Vacanti
Books on Kanban and Lean
Limiting work in progress, seeing where the queue forms, and the theory that explains why both of those work.
10 books, starting with Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business
Interviewing Users
Portigal
The Mom Test
Fitzpatrick
Just Enough Research
Hall
Books on User Research
Ten books that take you from a first customer conversation to findings a stakeholder will act on.
10 books, starting with Interviewing Users
The Design of Everyday Things
Norman
Don't Make Me Think
Krug
About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design
Noessel
Books on UX Design
The craft references for people making the design decisions, from first principles to the pattern library.
10 books, starting with The Design of Everyday Things
This Is Service Design Doing
Schneider
Good Services
Downe
Mental Models
Young
Books on Service Design
Seven books for designing the whole thing a person is trying to do, rather than the screen in front of them.
7 books, starting with This Is Service Design Doing
Accessibility for Everyone
Kalbag
Mismatch: How Inclusion Shapes Design
Holmes
A Web for Everyone
Quesenbery
Books on Accessibility and Inclusive Design
Seven books for treating accessibility as a design decision rather than a late audit.
7 books, starting with Accessibility for Everyone
Content Design
Winters
Strategic Writing for UX
Podmajersky
Writing Is Designing
Welfle
Books on Content Design and UX Writing
Seven books for the person who ends up writing the words inside the product.
7 books, starting with Content Design
The Making of a Manager
Zhuo
High Output Management
Grove
Radical Candor
Scott
Books for First-Time Managers
Ten books for the first year of managing people, from the promotion to the conversation you keep postponing.
10 books, starting with The Making of a Manager
Influence Without Authority
Bradford
Managing Up
Abbajay
How to Lead in Product Management
Pichler
Books on Managing Up and Influence
Eight books for owning an outcome when nobody who delivers it reports to you.
8 books, starting with Influence Without Authority
Difficult Conversations
Heen
Getting to Yes
Patton
Never Split the Difference
Voss
Books on Negotiation and Difficult Conversations
Seven books for the conversations where the stakes are high and someone has to say the hard thing.
7 books, starting with Difficult Conversations
Who: The A Method for Hiring
Street
Peopleware
Lister
The Fearless Organization
Edmondson
Books on Hiring and Building Teams
Nine books on choosing people, drawing team boundaries and building the conditions good work needs.
9 books, starting with Who: The A Method for Hiring
Remote Work Revolution
Neeley
The Long-Distance Leader
Turmel
Deep Work
Newport
Books on Remote and Distributed Work
Seven books for leading and doing good work when the team is rarely in the same room.
7 books, starting with Remote Work Revolution
Leading Change
Kotter
Managing Transitions
Bridges
Turn the Ship Around!
Marquet
Books on Organisational Change and Culture
Seven books for the gap between announcing a change and living with it.
7 books, starting with Leading Change