Readers and clients frequently seek assistance from us in choosing top product management books to read.
Modern enterprises operate on the go, and product management is no exception. New methods, approaches, and principles in product management emerge constantly. The importance of staying up to speed with latest developments in the sector for a competent product manager cannot be overstated.
Staying informed with the latest product management news is easy when you read from established, reliable sources. By staying up-to-date, you can learn about new industry advancements and apply them to your work process. Furthermore, having a personal library of go-to product management books will help solidify your knowledge and come in handy during moments of doubt or brainstorming.
Though it may take some time, reading product management books is a great way to learn more about product management. Dedicating even just a few minutes each day to reading will help you make rapid progress.
One of the most effective methods to begin is by keeping an eye out for the best product management books and reading them. Roman Pichler books and Marty Cagan books spring to mind.
Reading new must read books for product managers publications as they come out, especially ones that consider new ways of working, is a good idea.
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Startup Mindset
The Lean Startup offers an exploration of an innovative approach to starting a business. It concentrates on efficiency and the best possible use of human resources. Through many stories and examples, it preaches continuous testing and adapting.
When Eric Ries publishes a book it is worth reading as its content provide transformative content. I had the opportunity to listen to Eric when he spoke about the book to a packed audience. In this book Eric reveals how entrepreneurial principles can be used by businesses of all kinds, ranging from established companies to early-stage startups, to grow revenues, drive innovation, and transform themselves into truly modern organisations, poised to take advantage of the enormous opportunities of the twenty-first century.
Agile Patterns
Jonathan Smart, business agility practitioner, thought leader, and coach, reveals the patterns and antipatterns that will help organizations from every industry deliver better value sooner, safer, and happier through high levels of engagement, inclusion, and empowerment. Through his decades of experience in the technology world, Smart provides business leaders with a blueprint for creating a world-class organisation of the future.
Product Management Practices
Based on his own experience, the author explains a variety of Scrum management practices. A must-read for every prospective product owner looking to maximise the value.
An in-depth look at the best possible way to plan and strategise your product management. Plenty of real-life examples will help you better understand and apply the best practices suitable for the modern business environment.
Essential reading if you want to become a successful product leader, The book covers the most effective ways of developing a productive relationship with all of the stakeholders involved in the product management in order to create the best value.
Going through every stage of product development, this book helps you create the product that the customers will fall in love with. Inspired contains testimonials by many product managers from the world’s most renowned tech companies.
Agile Ways of Working
This book examines how to incorporate user needs into software development. It will teach you to develop “user stories” as a way of determining what is valuable to the customers and use them in your product management to create the best value. This is still my goto book for user stories.
The book serves as an intro to Discipline Agile Delivery, a hybrid method in software development. It covers its application in the agile process from its initial phase to the very end.
A book that helps you determine the way of working that best suits you, guides you through it and instructs you how to analyze and reflect on a completed task. It does so through many practical experiments set in the agile business surroundings.
Lean Mindset
As the title says, this book shares the business principles of one of the most successful companies in the world. Lesson learned from Toyota will help your workplace become more productive, efficient, all with minimal cost.
DevOps Mindset
In the form of a novel, Kim delivers lessons about handling challenges and problems of running a business. While very entertaining, the book is also very educational, putting its protagonists into life-like situations that you will encounter in your day-to-day operations. A book that I read several times and still one of the most important books in recent times for new ways of working and DEVOPS.
Though the protagonist, Maxine, Kim tells a story of business in the digital age, and obstacles developers and managers must overcome to become successful. A sequel to The Phoenix Project, it digs deeper into challenges of creating a well-run business.
Strategy and Business Models
Through a wide range of case studies, this book explores the life of organisations on all levels. It discusses strategy management in a clear and easy to understand way. Johnson uses cases of a number of renowned companies to shine a light on organisational management.
If you feel ready to challenge traditional business models, this is the right book for you. Great source for developing a strategy that will suit the reality of the modern business environment.
The authors of the international bestseller Business Model Generation explain how to create value propositions customers can’t resist.
Agile Organisational Design
A guide for developing a strategy to adopt Lean and Agile business principles, the book uses many case studies to illustrate its points. It’s perfect for anyone working in a legacy environment trying to implement modern models of business.
Overall agility throughout the whole business is in the focus of this book. By exploring real cases, many from his own experience, the author manages to cover all important aspects of implementing agile doctrine in the complete organisation.
Product Measuring
A book that is all about OKRs – Objectives and Key Results. It helps the reader properly establish appropriate goals for the business and determine if those goals are met in a proper fashion.