My favorite books on products?
Let me put together a list of all the books that have educated me on building products and the business around products.
I have categorized them into different areas.
Product Management:
How to Create Products Customers Love: Marty Cagan
Ebook: Roadmapping by Steve Johnson http://u10c.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/ebook-roadmapping.pdf
The Product Manager’s Toolkit: Methodologies, Processes and Tasks in High-Tech Product Management by Blackblot
The Art of Product Management by Rich Mironov
Take Charge Product Management by Greg Geracie
Software PM Essentials by Allysa Dver
Product Bytes by Rich Mironov
Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love, by Marty Cagan
Agile Product Management with Scrum, by Roman Pichler
Product Discovery
What customers Want?: Using Outcome-Driven Innovation to Create Breakthrough Products and Services
The Four Steps to the Epiphany (or The Startup Owner's Manual) by Steven Gary Blank
Running Lean by Ash Maurya
Product Development:
Lean Startup: Eric Reis
User Stories Applied by Mike Cohen
The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen
Product Strategy:
Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
Beyond Product by Jill Soley
Product-Led Growth by Wes Bush
The Innovator's Dilemma
The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
Crossing the Chasm: Geffrey Moore
3. Branding: In Five and a Half Steps by Michael Johnson
--> A book on #brand strategy4. This is Marketing by Seth Godin
--> A book on how to build trust with consumers to sell the product5. Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger
--> A book on Word of Mouth MarketingHBR’s 10 Must Reads
Profit from the Core
The Art of Strategy by Avinash Dikshit
Business Models:
Business Model Generation
Reinvent Your Business Model
Blitzscaling
The Business Model Navigator
Innovation:
Rules for Revolutionaires: Guy Kawasaki, Michele Moreno
Product Design:
The Design of Everyday Things
The Simplicity Shift by Scott Jenson
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity by Alan Cooper
Dont make me think: http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Make-Me-Think-Usability/dp/032134475
Rocket Surgery Made Easy
Microinteractions by Dan Saffer
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things, by Don Norman
Business/Product Stories:
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes our Lives
Product Interviews:
Cracking the PM interview, a great overview of what the PM role is, how it looks at different companies, and how to ace interviews
Soft Skills/Leadership:
High Output Management
The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
Managing Humans, by a former eng manager at Apple on the soft skills you need to manage and lead a software development team
Getting Things Done When You Are Not in Charge by Geoffrey Bellman
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Managing Product Career/Building Influence
Invaluable : Master the 10 Skills to Skyrocket Your Career by Maya Rossman
Product Culture
Rework, 37signals
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Data for PMs:
Web Analytics 2.0 by Avinash Kaushik
Lean Analytics
Product Marketing:
Permission Marketing
Positioning
Obviously Awesome
22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
Decision Making:
Decisive by Chip Heath, Dan Heath
PM Interviews:
Cracking the PM Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Jackie Bavaro
Category/Market Segmentation:
Play Bigger
Blue Ocean Strategy
Blue Ocean Shift
Crossing the Chasm
Playing to Win
Innovator’s Dilemma
Innovator’s Solution
Inside the Tornado
Niche Down
Rocket Fuel
Growth Hacking
Traction
Predictable Revenue
Finance for Product Managers:
Financial Intelligence by Karen Berman & Joe Knight
Mental Models
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models.
Are Your Lights On?: How to Figure Out What the Problem Really Is
Miscellaneous:
You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Agile Excellence for PMs by Greg Cohn
Other resources by Shreyas:
Book list by Petra:
https://www.petra-wille.com/book-shelf?utm_campaign=meetedgar&utm_medium=social&utm_source=meetedgar.com