I picked up this book after taking a deep dive into the conceptual world of Product Management -- the world of "A PM is a mix between design, engineering, and business...". I found myself with deep knowledge of the concept of a Product Manager, yet struggling to figure out how to translate it to my day to day as a new PM.
This book was a true eye-opener for me. It helped me distill down the concepts I was aware of, and learn how they actually translate to the actual practice of PM. This is the first book I have read that I find myself applying what is in the book to my day to day.
As a new Product Manager, this book is truly a must read. Could not recommend more.
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Who This Book Is For
Product management is the glue of modern organizations—the role that connects user needs with business goals, technical viability with user experience, and vision with execution. The connective nature of product management means that the role will look very different depending on the people, perspectives, and roles that you are connecting.
To that end, even defining what is and is not 'product management' can prove infuriatingly nonlinear. For the purposes of this book, 'product management' refers to the entire nexus of product and product-adjacent connective roles—which might be 'product manager,' 'product owner,' 'program manager,' 'project manager,' or even 'business analyst,' depending on where you work. For some organizations, a 'product manager' is the person responsible for defining a product’s strategic vision, whereas a 'product owner' oversees day-to-day tactics. For some organizations, the exact opposite is true. I worked with one organization in which a team of 'business analysts' woke up to find themselves magically transformed into 'product managers' by executive fiat, with no clear sense of how their day-to-day responsibilities had changed, or why.
Titles, like software tools and product development methodologies, are one way to provide some kind of structure and certainty to a role that offers precious little of either. Successful product management is much less a question of titles, tools, or processes than it is of practice. I use this word the same way one might refer to a yoga practice or a meditation practice—it is something that is built up with time and experience, and cannot be learned from frameworks and instructions alone.
This book is for anybody who wants to develop their practice of product management. That could be somebody with a 'product manager' or 'product owner' or 'program manager' title. It could be a startup founder struggling to connect the fast-moving pieces of their fledgling company. It could be a software developer who is feeling isolated from the user-facing impact of their work. Long story short, if you are in a role in which you are making connections between and across people and roles, I think and hope that there will be something for you in this book.
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I probably buy almost one book every other day on Amazon but almost never write a review. This book has helped me so much in my daily product work and in my product life, across two jobs already since I read this in 2018. For example, Matt's insights on clarity over comfort, silence meaning disagreement, etc. has changed how I approach all my engagements. I've read at least a dozen books on product management and Product Management in Practice remains the most insightful and my most revisited.
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Kewin Moya
The best book about product management
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You should read it at least once...
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Excellent, ma nouvelle référence
Reviewed in France on January 9, 2020