The Essential Reading List For Clever Product People
This is a reading list for Product Managers. The list was created many years ago after a talk we heard.
Nigel Dalton’s keynote speech at Product Camp Melbourne 2011 encouraged participants to spend 1 hour each week reading books.
As a result of his wise words, participants kick started a reading list.
Please continue to add to the list… (through the comments function or by dropping us a note at info@brainmates.com.au, @brainmates)
24 August 2011
- Scrappy Project Management by Kimberly Wiefling
- Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug
- What Customers Want by Anthony Ulwick
- Innovation Games: Creating Breakthrough Products Through Collaborative Play by Luke Hohmann
- Business Model Generation by Alex Osterwalder et al
- The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
- Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Business Creativity by Michael Michalko
- Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin
- Reimagine! Excellence in a Disruptive Age by Tom Peters (my personal fav)
- Product Strategy for High Technology Companies by Michael McGrath
- The Product Managers Desk Reference by Steven Haines
- The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing by Nagle et al
25 August 2011
- Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
- Roadmap to Revenue by Kristin Zhivago
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steven Gary Blank
- Discovery Driven Growth by Rita Gunther McGrath
- The Ten Faces of Innovation by Thomas Kelly
30 August 2011
- Rapid Problem Solving with Post-It Notes by David Straker
- Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion and Purpose by Tony Hsieh
- Good to Great by Jim Collins
- Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind by Ries and Trout
6 October 2011
- Users Not Customers by Aaron Shapiro
- Managing Product Management by Steven Haines
4 January 2012
- The Back of the Napkin (Expanded Edition): Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam
- Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
- Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers by Dave Gray
- Glimmer: How Design Can Transform Your Life, and Maybe Even the World by Warren Berger
- The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business by Clayton M. Christensen
- Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath
- Say It With Charts: The Executive’s Guide to Visual Communication by Gene Zelazny
29 April 2013
- Humanize, How People-Centric Organizations Succeed in a Social World by Jamie Notter and Maddie Grant
- Look and Flow by Enric Fort, Prashanth Padmanabahn & Eduardo Salamanca de Diego
- Resonate by Nancy Duarte
- Business Model Renewal by Linda Gorchels
- The Icarus Deception by Seth Godin
- Little Black Book of Innovation by Scott Anthony
- Winning at Innovation by Philip Kotler and Fernando Tràas de Bes
- Marketing 3.0 From Products to Customers to the Human Spirit by Philip Kotler
12 July 2013
- Universal Methods of Design by Bella Martin and Bruce Hanington
- Designing for Growth by Jeanne Liedtka and Tim Ogilvie
- 101 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People by Susan Weinschenk
- Ten Types of Innovation by Larry Keeley
5 February 2014
- Your Brain and Business by Dr. Srini Pillay (This author is inspirational!)
- The Knowing-Doing Gap by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton
- Dealing With Darwin: How Great Companies Innovate at Every Phase of Their Evolution by Geoffrey Moore
- The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
- Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights by Steve Portigal
25 February 2016
- Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Value Proposition Design by Alex Osterwalder
- Hooked: How to Build Habit Forming Products by Nir Eyal
- Reframe: Shift the Way You Work, Innovate and Think by Mona Patel
- Running Lean by Ash Maurya
- Zero to One by Peter Thiel
- Simple Rules by Donald Sull and Kathy Eisenhardt
- The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen
- The Hard Things About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
- The Art of Product Management by Rich Mironov
18 September 2019
- Escaping The Build Trap by Melissa Perri
- A More Beautiful Question by Warren Berger
- Sense and Respond by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden
- Hidden in Plain Sight by Jan Chipchase
- Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra
- The Mom Test, by Rob Fitzpatrick
- Product Roadmaps Relaunched by Bruce McCarthy
- Sprint, by Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky
- This is Service Design Doing by Marc Stickdorn
- Cracking the PM Interview by Gayle McDowell & Jackie Bavaro
