Reading List

A curated collection of books, articles and resources about product development.

• : highly recommended readings
• : academic research
• : new to the list
• : reading in progress
• : writing in progress
• : link to reading
• : easter egg

Where available, citations are sourced from WorldCat with a preference for ASA style or Chicago style referencing.

In Progress

Bavaro Jackie and Gayle Laakmann McDowell. 2021. Cracking the Pm Career. Palo Alto CA: CareerCup LLC.

Olsen Dan. 2015. The Lean Product Playbook : How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback. Hoboken: Wiley.

Patton Jeff. 2014. User Story Mapping. Sebastopol CA: O'Reilly Media. https://proquest.safaribooksonline.com/9781491904893.

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Books

Cagan Marty. 2018. Inspired : How to Create Tech Products Customers Love. Second ed. Hoboken New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.

The single product book that should be on every product professional's bookshelf.

Torres Teresa. 2021. Continuous Discovery Habits : Discover Products That Create Customer Value and Business Value. Bend OR: Product Talk LLC.

Introduces a series of valuable concepts that drive discovery: product trio, experience maps, opportunity solution tree, interview snapshots and story maps.

Articles

Springer, O., Miler, J. A comprehensive overview of software product management challenges. Empir Software Eng 27, 106 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-022-10134-5

Ranked list of 27 problems faced by product managers. Sourced from a combination of a systematic literature review, interviews and surveys with sofware product managers.