Strategy, discovery, metrics, growth, pricing, design, delivery and leadership. Each entry says when it is the right one to pick up.
The fourth edition of the book that introduced personas and goal directed design to a wide audience. Its first part covers the process, moving through research, modelling users into personas, deriving requirements from scenarios, and framing an interaction design solution.
Fadell's book draws on the iPod, iPhone and Nest, organised as short chapters of advice covering an individual career, building a team, building a product, building a business, and being a chief executive.
Bavaro wrote this as the sequel to Cracking the PM Interview, and where that book was about getting hired this one is about the job and the ladder above it.
Schneier describes the surveillance that falls out of ordinary technology use, covering both government collection and the commercial data economy that supplies it.
Newport defines deep work as cognitively demanding activity performed without distraction, and argues it is becoming both rarer and more valuable at the same time.
Gottesdiener and Gorman set out a structured conversation for deciding what to build, run across three planning horizons, which are the whole product, the next release and the current iteration.
Perri names the pattern where organisations measure success in features shipped rather than problems solved, then works through what replaces it. You get a product role defined by outcomes, a strategy framework she calls the …
An attempt to give software architecture a shared foundation rather than leaving it to war stories. The first part covers architectural thinking, modularity, and the architecture characteristics a system is actually being optimised for, along with how to identify and measure them.
The book 37signals wrote about how they built Basecamp, and the direct ancestor of Shape Up. It argues for a smaller product, a smaller team and a shorter path to launch, then works through what that means for scope, design, code and writing.
Allen's system for keeping commitments out of your head and in a set of lists you trust. The workflow moves through capturing everything that has your attention, clarifying what each item actually is, organising the results into …
The Harvard Negotiation Project's method for principled negotiation, which separates the people from the problem and bargains over interests rather than stated positions.
Downe led design in the UK Government Digital Service and distilled that experience into fifteen principles for a service that works. Each principle gets a short chapter, covering matters such as being easy to find, explaining its …
Grove ran Intel and wrote a management book grounded in production thinking, opening with a breakfast factory to explain limiting steps, capacity and quality control.
Covert wrote a short book about information architecture for people who would never call themselves information architects. It moves from identifying the mess and stating your intent through to choosing a direction, giving structure to the parts and preparing to adjust as things change.
The fourth edition of the polar bear book, rewritten so the ideas apply to any information environment rather than only to websites. The core sections cover the anatomy of an information architecture, then the organisation …