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1. The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback
- Wiley
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2. Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology
- Physical Condition: No Defects
- Great one for reading
- It's a great choice for a book person
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3. Product Management in Practice: A Real-World Guide to the Key Connective Role of the 21st Century
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4. Build Better Products: A Modern Approach to Building Successful User-Centered Products
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5. Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
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6. Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price
- Wiley
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7. Shipping Greatness: Practical lessons on building and launching outstanding software, learned on the job at Google and Amazon
- Used Book in Good Condition
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8. INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)
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10. Decode and Conquer: Answers to Product Management Interviews
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11. What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful
12. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. Atul Gawande
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13. Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty
14. The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
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15. Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences
- John Wiley Sons
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17. The 2-Hour Job Search: Using Technology to Get the Right Job Faster
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18. The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Updated and Expanded
- Harvard Business School Press
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19. The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
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This is a great start! I'm going through a similar process of resume refinement right now, so I understand how much work is involved. I'm including a bunch of feedback based on what I've learned so far and had success with. I've also hired a couple of PMs as a part of my current role, which has helped with seeing what "clicked" for me when on the hiring-side of things. Apologies for the length in advance, hopefully this is useful.
Keep at it and don't get discouraged! Your next opportunity is out there.
Great to hear that you're looking to get into product ownership, it's a great career with a bunch of learning opportunities and career options. Understanding agile and the various frameworks is a great start. It sounds like you have some technical understanding (although not a must, it can help tremendously) and also domain expertise...again more ticks. At its heart a PO is responsible for ensuring that what your team build is the correct thing. This can be summarised as the following
This work is often called 'Discovery' and learning how to ensure that these 4 critera are meet and then suitably broken down to stopries which can be consumed for your dev/qa team is keys. As with everything there is a host of methods/frameworks out there, but here is some articles i've found good.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/content-design/user-needs - a comon method for creating initial stories, and most improtantly makes you consider why you're creating the story as you need to talk to the benifit. (the british government's digital transformation is actually a great case study for PO's)
https://www.devbridge.com/articles/how-to-set-up-dual-track-scrum-in-jira/ -Dual track scrum is a framework for creating a design framework which preceeds the dev/test sprint.
I'd suggest trying to find out which agile methodology your company uses (Scrum, kanban etc) and then spending time gathering more info on the specific methodology. If Scrum then the key ceremonies a PO is needed for is Sprint Planning and Demos & Retrospectives. Learn what is expected of you during these ceremonies.
A couple of books that i found useful:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lean-Startup-Innovation-Successful-Businesses/dp/0670921602/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541540223&sr=8-1&keywords=lean+startup - Lean Startup....kinda product mangement/owner essential reading
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sprint-Solve-Problems-Test-Ideas/dp/0593076117/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541540263&sr=8-1&keywords=sprint - Sprint. A practical guide toi how to solve big problems. As you only have a week heres a 90 second video on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2vSQPh6MCE
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inspired-Create-Tech-Products-Customers/dp/1119387507/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1541540364&sr=8-1&keywords=inspired - Inspired - A great book specifically on Product manangement but is also usefuil for PO's
Once you become a PO, the trick is applying the host of diffrent frameworks and understanding what works best for your team is the tricky part. If you can find yourself a mentor it's a great help to do so as they can help you navigate potential hurdles.
Hope this helps and good luck with the interview
PS i didn't continue with education post GCSE, don't let that worry you.
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You can take this answer all kind of ways, but I would recommend that you start with a classic. How to Win Friends and Influence People is probably the original self improvement book:
https://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People-ebook/dp/B07XRXR5PC
From there, I would suggest focusing on areas of personal weakness. If you aren’t sure where to focus, read What Got You Here Won’t Get You There:
https://www.amazon.com/What-Got-Here-Wont-There-ebook/dp/B000Q9J128
Third, focus on how to think aka “mental models”. In product, you will never be the “smartest” person in the room. Reasoning by analogy, asking the right questions, and discerning the map from the territory are all useful skills.
Here is my favorite blog which has tons of resources on mental models:
https://fs.blog/
All three of these have been turning points in my Product Management career. Good luck!
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I found the following book very useful to come up with a framework for pricing decisions: Monetizing Innovation. https://www.amazon.com/Monetizing-Innovation-Companies-Design-Product/dp/1119240867/.
This is a great resource: https://www.oneweekpm.com. This course is a great place to start.
Hitchhiker's Guide to Product Management ( great blog ):
Books to read after the course: https://yilunzh.com/pm/
INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love: https://www.amazon.com/INSPIRED-Create-Tech-Products-Customers-ebook/dp/B077NRB36N
The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback: https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Product-Playbook-Innovate-Products/dp/1118960874
Shipping Greatness: Practical lessons on building and launching outstanding software, learned on the job at Google and Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Shipping-Greatness-Practical-launching-outstanding/dp/1449336574
Hope this guides help.
OP try giving this text a read: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615930417/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl_nodl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0615930417&linkCode=as2&tag=seatintecoac-20
Basically a CC functions like this: Credit card companies make the bulk of their money from three things: interest, fees charged to cardholders, and transaction fees paid by businesses that accept credit cards.
Think of a credit card as a short term loan, so if you were to start lending money, what would you look into first? Determining who your target market is. Is the CC for college students, first time creditors, arm forces members, state employees, mid income or new creditors with 0 credit?
How are you finding your CC company?
Will you have crediting investors who would get profits from the collected interests over time it will you have shared holders of a financial institution?
Think about how you would go about establishing credit worthiness, credit interest tiers, payment methods, insurance, security and fraud etc.
Hope this gives you something to start on.
Can’t recommend this book enough (300 pages):
Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology https://www.amazon.com/dp/0984782818/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_kWKyCb3XHZKFX
“This is Product Management” Podcast: Great material that’s pretty dense with little bullshit. Could easily snag some great management theories and jot them down.
YouTube Nir Eyal. Wrote the book “Hooked: How to Build Habit-forming Products.” He’s a great speaker. Beyond him there are a ton of great YouTube videos of people in product, ProductCon videos might be a start.
Eric Reis blog.
In my mind, a DevOps PM is a technical role responsible for aligning project management (scrum masters), technology strategy, and developers. If the business says 'we want to push new code every 2 weeks' and 'we want the ability to A/B test different features,' it's up to the DevOps PM to make sure that the product is architected in such a way that this doable, make sure project management understands the challenges, track velocity for new releases, etc.
I'd recommend reading The Phoenix Project to learn more. A little outdated given the rise of cloud computing and microservices, but the ideas around agile and finding the most efficient way to release code still hold true today.
Not sure if the intent is for your client to drop your product slides into a larger presentation, or if you’re intending to build the complete presentation for your client...either way, you may find it useful to incorporate storytelling techniques to amp up viewer engagement. I’ve found the following books very good:
Resonate, by Nancy Duarte
Storynomics, by Robert McKee and Tom Gerace
Good luck!
Welcome! Product management is an equally exciting and confusing place to be in. Here are some resources to point you in the right direction.
A few articles/websites for you to read to get a good overview of the product manager role:
These are my two favorite books that really helped me understand what product managers should be doing.
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Build Better Products by Laura Klein would be a good book to explore: https://www.amazon.com/Build-Better-Products-Successful-User-Centered/dp/1933820586
Some really helpful tips in this.
Not sure about courses but there's tons of stuff to learn from listening to other PM's experiences. Podcasts are a good way to do that. So much information to absorb from them. Check out This is Product Management or Product People.
This is a good list to find more such resources: https://blog.zipboard.co/top-podcasts-for-product-managers-1c3c25a11a03
The book I read it in was https://www.amazon.com/Product-Management-Practice-Real-World-Connective/dp/1491982276 and I'm 99% sure they go into more details in that book about specifically what they meant by it. (In general it's a pretty good book that I'd recommend)
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For me it means things like:
That sort of stuff.
Have you read Decode and Conquer (http://amzn.to/29G0irv) and How Google Works (http://amzn.to/29G0p6k)?
Some videos:
https://userbrain.net/blog/product-management-videos-that-are-worth-your-time
But still, I'd love to keep learning. Especially about improving people skills. It gets more important as you move up.
Sounds like your organisation os focused on workflow and delivery, so I would focus on aligning KPIs to OKRs that map up to business goals.
Also read The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. Atul Gawande https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1846683149/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_0NdFDb66SV631 for inspiration
You might want to check out this book- Cracking the PM Interview .It's a little dated now, but talks about what it's like to interview at a number of companies, including Facebook. Can I ask a question in return? I'm looking to pivot into the PM role. However - I lack a technical background. Any recommendations on how to address that in general or in the interview? Can I ask what small/medium sized companies you worked at? All people talk about are the big 4-5 :)
Now that he's in his 40s I'd recommend doing some introspection and possibly re-branding of his resume and image. He's in his PRIME money earning years and needs to capitalize on his experience.
In the absence of an amazing mentor this book helped me understand what was required to make the jump to Director and Senior Director. https://www.amazon.com/What-Got-Here-Wont-There-ebook/dp/B000Q9J128
The Manager's Path: A Guide for Tech Leaders Navigating Growth and Change
This could be a good read !!
the lean product playbook is excellent, (no this is not an affiliate link, nor am I the author) https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Product-Playbook-Innovate-Products/dp/1118960874/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1549985813&sr=8-1&keywords=lean+product+playbook
Product Management in Practice... Have recommended this to a few people who are early on in their PM career (was helpful to me as well!)
Absolutely! I've actually written about this in several occasions. Here are a few links for you:
How to build a roadmap everyone understands
Myth busting: Why date driven roadmaps are not roadmaps
How to Sell Your Boss on Roadmaps Without Timelines
Drop Feature-based Roadmaps
Themes: A Small Change to Product Roadmaps with Large Effects
I would also highly recommend getting this book on Amazon if you can: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Product-Roadmaps-Relaunched-Todd-Lombardo/dp/149197172X
If you haven’t been recommended it yet, you might want to check out Cracking The PM Interview
Read cracking the pm interview.
Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology https://www.amazon.com/dp/0984782818/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_HAdBzb02F7VZV