Strategy, discovery, metrics, growth, pricing, design, delivery and leadership. Each entry says when it is the right one to pick up.
Cagan sets out how product teams at companies shipping continuously actually operate. Empowered teams are given problems rather than feature lists, a product manager is accountable for value and viability, and a designer and engineers are involved from the start.
Alvarez wrote a practical guide to customer development for people inside established companies rather than for founders, which is the gap the original literature left.
Nandakumar wrote this for the gap between a business idea stated in one sentence and a product a team can begin. The method runs from naming the business outcome, through the impact the product would have to have and the measures …
Holmes led inclusive design at Microsoft and argues that disability is a mismatch between a person and their environment rather than a fixed personal attribute.
Wheelan explains the statistical ideas that turn up in ordinary working life without asking the reader to do much of the maths. Chapters cover descriptive statistics and what an average conceals, correlation, basic probability …
LeMay writes about the daily reality of the job rather than the idealised version. Covers the CORE skills of communication, organisation, research and execution, working with stakeholders and executives, the difference between the …
Three product managers from Google, Facebook and Microsoft set out the seven bodies of knowledge they argue a product manager is expected to have. The seven are product design, economics, psychology, user experience, data science, law and policy, then marketing and growth.
Perri and Tilles describe product operations as a discipline with three pillars, which are data and insights, customer and market insights, then process and governance.
Written by FranklinCovey for the very large number of people who end up running projects that are not in their job description. The method pairs a light process running from initiating through planning, execution and monitoring to …
Dutt argues that iteration alone produces what she calls product diseases, and that a clear vision has to come first. The method has five elements covering vision, strategy, priorities, execution and measurement, with a specific …
Galen writes for the product owner who is accountable for value in a Scrum team and has found that the Scrum Guide says very little about how to deliver it.
Norman's foundational text on how objects communicate their own use. Affordances, signifiers, mapping, feedback and conceptual models are all defined here, along with the gulfs of execution and evaluation that separate intention from action.
Drucker's argument is that effectiveness is a habit that can be learned rather than a trait people are born with, and he sets out the practices that make it up.
Blank's original customer development text, which the Lean Startup later popularised. The four steps are customer discovery, customer validation, customer creation and company building, each with entry and exit criteria.
A novel about a plant manager given three months to save his factory, and the book that carried the theory of constraints to a wide audience. The five focusing steps run through the plot, showing how to identify the constraint …