What books would you recommend for someone looking to learn Product Management?

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Amit · Accepted Answer

You can start in this order:

STARTERS:
1. Inspired - Marty Cagan

GETTING STARTED:
1. Cracking the PM Interview - Gayle Laakmann McDowell
2. Decode and Conquer - Lewis C. Lin

DEVELOP IN PM ROLE:
a) Examples, Tips & Tricks
1. Product Management in Practice - Matt LeMay

b) Setting Goals:
1. Measure What Matters - John Doerr
2. Outcomes over Output - Joshua Sieden

c) Doing Discovery:
1. Sprint - Jake Knapp
2. Continuous Discovery Habits - Teresa Torres

c) Collaborating with team and stakeholders:
1. User Story Mapping - Jeff Patton
2. Epic Alignment - Nils Janse
3. Product Roadmaps Relaunched - C. Todd Lombardo

d) Changing user behavior
1. Badass: Making Users Awesome - Kathy Sierra
2. Hooked - Nir Eyal

DEVELOP INTO PRODUCT LEADER:
1. Escaping the build trap - Melissa Perri
2. Empowered - Marty Cagan

DIFFERENT PHASES OF PRODUCT LIFECYCLE
a) Early Phases:
1. The Lean Startup - Eric Ries
2. Value Proposition Design - Alexander Osterwalder et al
3. The Lean Product Playbook - Dan Olsen

b) Scaling Phase:
1. Crossing the chasm - Geoffrey Moore

Credits to the original author: https://www.delibr.com/post/visual-guide-to-the-best-books-on-product-management

Jeff Lombard · Answer

1. Scrum the art of doing twice the work in half the time- it's important to understand not only what to build but how to build it quickly.

2. Shape Up - https://basecamp.com/shapeup - it's important to understand tradeoffs and what is realistic

3. Blue Ocean Strategy - It's important to differentiate and see opportunity

Michael Silber · Answer

A lot of PMs like to write and work out their ideas online (for better or worse). There are a ton of free and semi-free resources if you search around Substack and Medium. A lot of the VCs (e.g. Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz) have great content as well. Reforge is also a great resource for information. Hope that help!

What books would you recommend for someone looking to learn Product Management?

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