Top Product Management books curated by experts

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Fundamentals of Product Management

Understanding the concepts of Product Management 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.

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us? Nir Eyal answers these questions (and many more) by explaining the Hook Model—a four-step process embedded i…

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EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

"EMPOWERED is full of actionable straight talk for anyone looking to understand how the best product teams operate. The book demonstrates that great product companies aren't made by magic–the structure and leadership of the whole product development organization creates the environment for succe…

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Product-Led Growth: How to Build a Product That Sells Itself

Product-Led Growth: How to Build a Product That Sells Itself

Product-led growth is about building a product that is so good that opting to pay for it after a free trial period is over/ upgrading from freemium to a premium model is a no-brainer. The product-led growth approach switches up the traditional sales cycle.

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Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

Jeff Sutherland discloses to the non-tech world the elegantly simple process that programmers and web developers have been using since he invented Scrum, showing how a small, empowered, and dedicated team can deliver significantly higher quality work at a faster pace through introspection, itera…

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The Product Manager Interview: 167 Actual Questions and Answers

The Product Manager Interview: 167 Actual Questions and Answers

From the creator of the CIRCLES Method™, The Product Manager Interview is a resource you don’t want to miss. The world's expert in product management interviews, Lewis C. Lin, gives readers 164 practice questions to gain product management (PM) proficiency to master the interview.

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Shape Up

Shape Up

Shape Up is coming out of the product factory Basecamp. Having been in business for over a decade, both as agency and product company, they have developed a unique and well-tested approach to product management.

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Additional Product Management Reading

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

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

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

Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value shows you how to shift a reactive project factory at risk of disruption into a successful product-focused organization creating products that customers love.

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The Product Manager's Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Succeed as a Product Manager

The Product Manager's Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Succeed as a Product Manager

The world of business is moving at breakneck speed. More is being demanded of everyone--with fewer resources than ever. In no profession is this more apparent than Product Management. Written by one of today's leading Product Management thought-leaders, Steven Haines, The Product Manager's Survi…

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Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow is a 2011 popular science book by psychologist Daniel Kahneman. The book's main thesis is a differentiation between two modes of thought: "System 1" is fast, instinctive and emotional; "System 2" is slower, more deliberative, and more logical.

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Badass: Making Users Awesome

Badass: Making Users Awesome

People love being empowered and your product's users are no exception to that. Find research and methods about how to make your users powerful and successful when using your product.

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Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

Most people think it’s because these companies are somehow able to find and attract a level of talent that makes this innovation possible. But the real advantage these companies have is not so much who they hire, but rather how they enable their people to work together to solve hard problems and…

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Lean Vs. Agile Vs. Design Thinking: What You Really Need to Know to Build High-Performing Digital Product Teams

Lean Vs. Agile Vs. Design Thinking: What You Really Need to Know to Build High-Performing Digital Product Teams

As companies evolve to adopt, integrate, and leverage software as the defining element of their success in the 21st century, a rash of processes and methodologies are vying for their product teams' attention. In the worst of cases, each discipline on these teams -- product management, design, an…

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