Strategy, discovery, metrics, growth, pricing, design, delivery and leadership. Each entry says when it is the right one to pick up.
Reeves and Gaines cover what changes when the buyer is not the user. Multiple stakeholders, long sales cycles, procurement, security review, integration requirements and the influence of sales and customer success on the roadmap all get direct treatment.
Osterwalder and Pigneur's Business Model Canvas, with nine building blocks covering customer segments, value propositions, channels, customer relationships, revenue streams, key resources, key activities, key partnerships and cost structure.
The Disciplined Agile handbook, now published by PMI, built on the idea that a team should choose its way of working rather than adopt a named method whole.
Adkins covers the coaching side of the Scrum Master role in depth. Works through the mindset shift from expert to coach, then the stances of teacher, mentor, problem solver, conflict navigator, collaboration conductor and coach.
The fullest treatment of Jobs to Be Done from Christensen and colleagues. The argument is that customers hire products to make progress in a circumstance, and that the circumstance rather than the customer's attributes predicts purchase.
Winters established the content design practice at the UK Government Digital Service, and this book sets out the method. Content design starts from a user need and from evidence about what people actually search for, then answers …
Humble and Farley's book on getting software from commit to production reliably. Covers the deployment pipeline in detail, build and dependency management, the testing strategy across levels, configuration management, managing …
Torres describes a specific weekly cadence. You interview customers every week, map the space with an opportunity solution tree, and run small assumption tests against the ideas that tree produces.
McDowell and Bavaro cover the product management job search end to end. The first half covers the role at different companies, resumes, cover letters and how the process actually runs at the large technology firms.
Goldratt's business novel applying the theory of constraints to project management. The story follows a business school lecturer and his students as they work out why projects overrun even when every individual task carries …
Moore's revision of the technology adoption lifecycle argues there is a gap between early adopters, who buy a change agent, and the early majority, who buy a productivity improvement backed by references.
A method for conversations where stakes are high, opinions differ and emotions run strong. The authors cover starting with heart, noticing when safety has broken down, mastering your own stories, stating your path with facts …
Schneier describes the surveillance that falls out of ordinary technology use, covering both government collection and the commercial data economy that supplies it.
Written for the people who work with data scientists rather than for the people who will build the models. It teaches the fundamental concepts, including how a business problem maps onto a data mining task, why overfitting happens …
Lin's interview preparation book, built around named frameworks for the common question types. CIRCLES for product design, DIGS for behavioural questions, AARM for metrics, and structures for estimation and strategy questions.