Top Product Development books recommended by experts

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Fundamentals of Product Development

Understanding the concepts of Product Development starts with understanding the fundamentals. On your way to mastery, it's crucial for you to understand how certain concepts were derived, and why things work like they do. Starting with these resources is the best way to do so.

The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback

The missing manual on how to apply Lean Startup to build products that customers love 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. ...

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Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want

The authors of the international bestseller Business Model Generation explain how to create value propositions customers can’t resist Value Proposition Design helps you tackle the core challenge of every business — creating compelling products and services customers want to buy. ...

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Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams

In today’s lightning-fast technology world, good product management is critical to maintaining a competitive advantage. ...

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The Mom Test: How to Talk to Customers and Learn If Your Business is a Good Idea when Everyone is Lying to You

The Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money, and heartbreak. They say you shouldn't ask your mom whether your business is a good idea, because she loves you and will lie to you. This is technically true, but it misses the point. You shouldn't ask anyone if your business is a good idea. ...

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Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER "Sprint offers a transformative formula for testing ideas that works whether you're at a startup or a large organization. Within five days, you'll move from idea to prototype to decision, saving you and your team countless hours and countless dollars. ...

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Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value

To stay competitive in today’s market, organizations need to adopt a culture of customer-centric practices that focus on outcomes rather than outputs. ...

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Additional Product Development Reading

These books are not required for you to learn Product Development, but they are highly recommended for you to deepen your knowledge.

The Lean Startup

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses is a book by Eric Ries describing his proposed lean startup strategy for startup companies.

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INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

How do today's most successful tech companies—Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla—define, design and develop the products that have earned the love of literally billions of people around the world? Perhaps surprisingly, they do it very differently than the vast majority of tech companies. ...

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Hey there! I'm Kat and I'm currently the sole Product Lead at an Aussie tech start-up/scale-up that straddles Digital Retail, eComm & FinTech. Prior to that I spent over 4 years at a large Australian retail company, playing in the consumer apps space that served millions of B2C customers everyday. …

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Senior Product Manager Technical with 10 years of experience in product development, statistical and financial analysis, and 4 years of hands-on programming experience in data mining, processing, analysis, and visualization (Python, Web API, SQL, Django, REST API, React.js). I was born and educated in Russia and began my career as …

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I’ve been building and shipping products across multiple roles and industries, from video streaming applications to API platforms. As a product person, my main goal is to understand my users and their specific needs, in order to deliver a product that truly improves their lives. I’ve worked for several years …

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