You’re up against a million deadlines. Your engineers are fretting about the functionality. Your designers are in mutiny about specifications. Your business manager is screaming about the budget, and your sales team just wants to talk pricing. What do you do? The biggest challenge and most important responsibility of a Product Manager are to stay focused on the user. You You’re up against a million deadlines. Your engineers are fretting about the functionality. Your designers are in mutiny about specifications. Your business manager is screaming about the budget, and your sales team just wants to talk pricing. What do you do? The biggest challenge and most important responsibility of a Product Manager are to stay focused on the user. You are the advocate for the customer. You put their interest first, and ensure that the end result actually achieves what you set out to accomplish in the first place. Even the best Product Managers cannot do this through instinct alone. You’re not psychic. You need to gather data. You need to systematically understand your users. And you need to learn how to effectively communicate this understanding to your team, so they are inspired to share your vision and stay on track. Presenting practical advice and thought leadership from PMs at companies like Airbnb, Reddit, and Square, ‘Ship it: Successful Product Managers Reveal All’ shows you how to succeed as a Product Manager by putting the user first, and getting your team on your side. The chapters you’re about to read provide specific advice on conducting user research and applying metrics that actually matter, as well as more general wisdom about the Product Manager career path, communication skills, and life lessons from PMs at the top of their game. No matter where you are on your PM journey, you’re bound to find nuggets of wisdom here that allow you to upgrade your thinking and achieve more for your users and your career.
Ship It: Silicon Valley Product Managers Reveal All
You’re up against a million deadlines. Your engineers are fretting about the functionality. Your designers are in mutiny about specifications. Your business manager is screaming about the budget, and your sales team just wants to talk pricing. What do you do? The biggest challenge and most important responsibility of a Product Manager are to stay focused on the user. You You’re up against a million deadlines. Your engineers are fretting about the functionality. Your designers are in mutiny about specifications. Your business manager is screaming about the budget, and your sales team just wants to talk pricing. What do you do? The biggest challenge and most important responsibility of a Product Manager are to stay focused on the user. You are the advocate for the customer. You put their interest first, and ensure that the end result actually achieves what you set out to accomplish in the first place. Even the best Product Managers cannot do this through instinct alone. You’re not psychic. You need to gather data. You need to systematically understand your users. And you need to learn how to effectively communicate this understanding to your team, so they are inspired to share your vision and stay on track. Presenting practical advice and thought leadership from PMs at companies like Airbnb, Reddit, and Square, ‘Ship it: Successful Product Managers Reveal All’ shows you how to succeed as a Product Manager by putting the user first, and getting your team on your side. The chapters you’re about to read provide specific advice on conducting user research and applying metrics that actually matter, as well as more general wisdom about the Product Manager career path, communication skills, and life lessons from PMs at the top of their game. No matter where you are on your PM journey, you’re bound to find nuggets of wisdom here that allow you to upgrade your thinking and achieve more for your users and your career.
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Kima Sargsyan –
Use this book of Product School as a starting point for digging deeper in product management. The goal of the book is understanding: understanding the customers through research and data, understanding the industry, and understanding of what becoming a PM entails. It's a really quick read and has useful insights from top Silicon Valley Product Managers working for Slack, Square, Facebook, Airbnb, Dropbox, Reddit, Optimizely and more. Recommended! Use this book of Product School as a starting point for digging deeper in product management. The goal of the book is understanding: understanding the customers through research and data, understanding the industry, and understanding of what becoming a PM entails. It's a really quick read and has useful insights from top Silicon Valley Product Managers working for Slack, Square, Facebook, Airbnb, Dropbox, Reddit, Optimizely and more. Recommended!
Shikha –
brief summary of concepts of managing the product...though i found most of the concepts very generic. finished the book within an hour.
Juanma –
Is always amazing to learn about the experience and stories of the top product managers. With an excellent design, it makes the reading flows.
Boni Aditya –
This book at best is a teaser or may be rough notes of all the ProductCon Talks from various practicing product managers. Yet another motley crew kind of collection from Product School. It has been my observation ever since I read such books stitched from talks of various experts, though they might have some insights in them, they fail to deliver in depth knowledge about any single topic and also fail to build over each others insights, and the net results remains a very shallow book with some tr This book at best is a teaser or may be rough notes of all the ProductCon Talks from various practicing product managers. Yet another motley crew kind of collection from Product School. It has been my observation ever since I read such books stitched from talks of various experts, though they might have some insights in them, they fail to deliver in depth knowledge about any single topic and also fail to build over each others insights, and the net results remains a very shallow book with some trailer type rushes about product management. A little knowledge is a very dangerous thing, and this book does very little justice to Product Management discipline as a whole. The reader is expected to visit each of the talks associated with these articles to get the complete picture! Not at all impressed.
Diego Eis –
Ótimo livro pra quem está começando na área. Para quem já começou, eles abordam uma série de assuntos que normalmente não se fala tanto nas comunidades. Como é um livro muito pequeno, faz sentido todo mundo da área ler. Particularmente não gosto de livros feitos de um alinhado de artigos, mas é interessante a mistura de ideias e pontos de vista sobre assuntos diversos da profissão de PM.
Diana –
Honestly, it’s a 3,5, but you really should know what to expect. This isn’t a book with deep knowledge, but rather a conspect of different ideas presented by people with various experiences. If you look at it as a mind-freshener, it’s a 4. If you want to learn something really new, it’s a 2,5. But generally, this is an okay light reading with some helpful advice, that’s why I rounded it up
Vitor Kneipp –
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Contains advice by product people in established tech companies about specific topics. Good for beginners as a starting point to gauge terms and language. Id suggest complement further with blogs, courses, other books and most importantly: trying out a project yourself to flesh out your product skills.
Janiza Gesmundo –
A great quick read for people who are curious about product management or aspiring to be one. I love reading insights, advice and stories from professionals in the field. This also lead me to watch some of the speaker’s full talk on YouTube.
Murat Girgin –
A tiny book to get overall remarks from 17 PMs of Silicon Valley. My favorites in this collection are; - How to achieve product market fit - The only metric that matters - A product centric overview of machine learning - Product driven growth - AI for fun and profit
Shivani Sharma –
An exceptional compilation of chapters that entail lessons learned, way ahead for aspiring PMs, Product management role across different domains by leading product managers in the tech industry. Especially liked the Product managers in the ML technology chapters towards the end of the book
Abhisek –
A short compilation of slideshows presented by 10 speakers converted into a book.
Zumrud_Huseynova –
Yesterday’s delighters become today’s performance features and tomorrow’s must-haves. The Product world is changing so quickly that backgrounds are less relevant than talent and intelligence.
Amyth Banerjee –
Great read. Concise, useful & practical summary of some effective product practices.
Mehdy Khoshnoody –
It's just better to watch the talks on YouTube It's just better to watch the talks on YouTube
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