What book have you found to be the most helpful in your growth in product management? At what stage were you in your career? What were your key learnings from the book?
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VP, Product & Engineering8 months ago
Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres. That's a great framework to build customer centric products.Product Associate8 months ago
Thanks Amoli. I'll check it out!
Associate Product Manager8 months ago
Working backwards, a different approach to products used at Amazon. Must read!Product Associate8 months ago
Thanks Yash. Sounds interesting!
Product Management Analysta month ago
If you're a real PM building products for real customers, I highly recommend Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres. It's well-researched, entirely practical, full of detail, and, most importantly, based on numerous real case studies. There are wonderful tips about research, effective stakeholder engagement (truly, what to say and what not to say is... important), and documenting your decision-making. Real practical stuff you can use right away. If you like it, you can find more on her blog.I was tremendously grateful to find that book a year or so into my PM career. It felt like having a mentor sit down at your desk and say "Here's something you can try."
Many PM "thought leadership" books are useful as a general orientation to the discipline (when you're new) or a refresher on principles (when you're jaded). Get the foundation, but don't get too attached - nothing works like how Marty Cagan described it to you.
Director of Product Managementa month ago
First read Melissa Perri's "Escaping the build trap", it's a very good description (short and precise) to Product Management in product model-based companies.Then read Continuous Discovery Habits. And then read Marty Cagan's three books: Inspired, Empowered, Transformed.
Then read all of them again :)
Director of Product Managementa month ago
Crucial Conversations - Understandable and actionable insights for talking with other people when the stakes are high -- e.g., when there are opposing opinions, high stakes, and strong emotions.Director of Product Managementa month ago
I read this as a Director of Product Management. My main takeaways were to watch for warning signs that a conversation has moved away from two-way dialogue (e.g., moved to silence or outright anger) so you can make it "safe" again by evidencing that I care about the person / respect their opinion. And the key insight of being candid and respectful - these often feel irreconcilable but that does not need to be the case