Now that you have better knowledge and some experience, it is time to up the game with all the resources you can find. The mix of books, courses, certifications, and many more resources will give you good base for becoming an expert in specific field.
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Free:
- Shape Up: Read this when your teams start growing and you want to get inspired from applied examples for developing and delivering products.
- Product Mindset: As you move ahead, start defining what best matters to customer. It may sound easy, but understanding customers and building the mindset for customer focus is difficult. Read this to start orienting yourself to think from customer point of view.
- The product analytics economy: Know about data and how it aids in your product decision making.
- Building vs Buying Analytics: Know if you should embed analytics to get the data quickly for decision making.
- Jobs To Be Done: The focus on JTBD is increasing and as you grow into the role, it is a must read to shape your products to create valuable products for your users.
- Product Led Growth: Know how to buld products that attract customers by themselves and create growth funnels.
- Pretotype It: If you are only doing prototyping, then know about pretotyping as well.
- When Coffee and Kale compete: Another book to refine your JTBD understanding.
- 280 Group books: These give you a mix of product management knowledge. They have detailed functional aspects of an organization which connects with each other and help you define better strategies for product management.
- The Ultimate Product Management Framework to Help You Build the Right Product: Long title but short and quick read for product management process.
Paid:
- Hooked: Must read book to form that habit of always creating a valuable products for your customers so that they keep coming back.
- Inspired: Marty Cagan is one of the well known product manager who inspires people about how to build products better. Once you have covered the fundamentals of product mangement, read this book to get inspired to begin your journey.
- Outcome over Output: As you grow into senior roles, you must start focussing on outcomes. This will be important when you work on OKRs(Objective & Key Results).
- Measure what matters: One again focussed on OKRs and a must read for delivering effective results.
- Escaping the build trap: customer centricity is the key to create winning products and avoid failures.
- Continuous discovery habits: Discovery is important part of the product building as this is where the whole journey begins.
- Product Roadmaps relaunched: Focuses on roadmap building. Strengthen your ability to build roadmaps in uncertain conditions.
- Product Management’s Sacred Seven: seven themes across which every product manager should excel to clear job interviews. Start working on these from now to excel in your career.
- Sprint: A must read on how to test your ideas in 5 days sprint. Important for product managers to get better features out there quickly.
- Building Products for the Enterprise: If you are interested or going to join a team to build B2B product, then this book is for you.
- Lean Customer Development: Another read for understanding how to build products that customers will purchase.
- Productize: If you want to know how to build scalable products, then this is a good read.