Here is a List of 10 Best Product Management Books. These Books are available on Amazon. Product management is an organizational function that aims to maximize the value of a product by optimizing every step of the product life cycle from developing, marketing to selling a product.
Author : Roman Pichler
In Agile Product Management with Scrum, leading Scrum consultant Roman Pichler uses real-world examples to demonstrate how product owners can create successful products with Scrum. He describes a broad range of agile product management practices, including making agile product discovery work, taking advantage of emergent requirements, creating the minimal marketable product, leveraging early customer feedback and working closely with the development team.
Benefitting from Pichler's extensive experience, you'll learn how Scrum product ownership differs from traditional product management and how to avoid and overcome the common challenges that Scrum product owners face.
Author : Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Jackie Bavaro
How many pizzas are delivered in Manhattan? How do you design an alarm clock for the blind? What is your favorite piece of software and why? How would you launch a video rental service in India? This book will teach you how to answer these questions and more. Cracking the PM Interview is a comprehensive book about landing a product management role in a startup or bigger tech company. Learn how the ambiguously-named "PM" (product manager / program manager) role varies across companies, what experience you need, how to make your existing experience translate, what a great PM resume and cover letter look like, and finally, how to master the interview: estimation questions, behavioral questions, case questions, product questions, technical questions, and the super important "pitch."
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Author : Product School, Carlos González de Villaumbrosia, Josh Anon
"No one asked you to show up." Every experienced product manager has heard some version of those words at some point in their career. Think about a company. Engineers build the product. Designers make sure it has a great user experience and looks good. Marketing makes sure customers know about the product. Sales get potential customers to open their wallets to buy the product. What more does a company need? What does a product manager do?
Based upon Product School’s curriculum, which has helped thousands of students become great product managers, The Product Book answers that question. Filled with practical advice, best practices, and expert tips, this book is here to help you succeed!
Author : Rajiv Jayaraman
What do Google, Amazon, face book and Alibaba have in common? Collectively referred to as “gafa”, these companies represent a new breed of competitors who are disrupting one industry after another using a playbook that most incumbent companies fail to understand. This book will help you understand how these digital born organizations look at the world around them and more importantly, help you transform your own organization to compete and ultimately, thrive in the digital age. With management playbooks from the industrial age offering very little meaningful guidance, we need a fresh perspective to respond to the digital challenge.
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Author : Brian Lawley, Pamela Schure
Product management plays a pivotal role in organizations. In fact, it's now considered the fourth most important title in corporate America—yet only a tiny fraction of product managers have been trained for this vital position. If you're one of the hundreds of thousands of people who hold this essential job—or simply aspire to break into a new role—Product Management For Dummies gives you the tools to increase your skill level and manage products like a pro.
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Author : Michael Grieves
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the newest wave in productivity. This revolutionary approach is an outcome of lean thinking; however, PLM eliminates waste and efficiency across all aspects of a product's life--from design to deployment--not just in its manufacture. By using people, product information, processes, and technology to reduce wasted time, energy, and material across an organization and into the supply chain, PLM drives the next generation of lean thinking.
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Author : Tapan K. Panda
Product and Brand Management is a comprehensive textbook designed to meet the needs of MBA students specializing in marketing. It offers in-depth coverage of various elements, valuation techniques and emerging applications for managing a product as well as a brand.
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Author : Kalpesh Ashar
As employees first move towards management, they typically take on management of critical projects. Project Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition provides the core information about how to manage the complexity of modern projects, including subjects such as: a) A project management overview b) Project Initiation – Constraints, Stakeholders, PMO, Life Cycles c) Project Planning – WBS, PERT/CPM, Budgeting, Risk d) Project Execution – Audits, HR, Communications e) Project Monitoring & Controlling – Tracking, Quality Control, Change Control f) Project Closure
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Author : Trott
The subject of innovation management is often treated as a series of separate specialisms, rather than an integrated task. The main aim of this book, however, is to bring together the areas of innovation management and new product development and to keep a strong emphasis on innovation as a management process. Written in an accessible style, this fourth edition brings a change in structure to clearly set out three key areas for the student: Innovation management, managing technology and knowledge and new product development. As innovation continues to be at the forefront of economic and political debate about how to improve the competitiveness of economies and firms, Innovation Management and New Product Development will give you some insight into the problems faced by firms as they try to develop innovative products that will help them survive and prosper.
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Author : Dan Olsen
The Lean Product Playbook is a practical guide to building products that customers love. Whether you work at a startup or a large, established company, we all know that building great products is hard. Most new products fail. This book helps improve your chances of building successful products through clear, step-by-step guidance and advice.
The Lean Startup movement has contributed new and valuable ideas about product development and has generated lots of excitement. However, many companies have yet to successfully adopt Lean thinking. Despite their enthusiasm and familiarity with the high-level concepts, many teams run into challenges trying to adopt Lean because they feel like they lack specific guidance on what exactly they should be doing.
