EARLY READER CLUB: ALIGNED
My Next Book
Aligned: Stakeholder Management for Product Leaders
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
There are many books on the hard skills of product management, but not much on the soft skill of stakeholder management. In my experience, driving alignment is the most critical tool for the success of your product — and your career.
Melissa Appel and I are writing the missing manual. Aligned: Stakeholder Management for Product Leaders will be published by O'Reilly next year.
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Product Roadmaps Relaunched
How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
A good product roadmap is one of the most important documents an organization can develop, publish, and continuously update. Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction While Embracing Uncertainty teaches you how to create an effective product roadmap, and demonstrates how to use the roadmap to align stakeholders and prioritize ideas and requests.
Steve Blank said about the book, “It’s about time someone brought product roadmapping out of the dark ages of waterfall development and made it into the strategic communications tool it should be. McCarthy and team have cracked the code.”
Product Manager vs. Project Manager
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Positions in product management are in high demand today for job seekers and companies alike, and yet there is much confusion in the market about what, exactly, this role is and does. Many conflate product management with project management, a much more familiar role. This ebook explains the distinction between product and project management for executives and hiring managers, including how these two roles often overlap and complement one another.
Bruce McCarthy explains that while project managers are responsible for marshalling resources to deliver products on time and on budget, product managers are responsible for the entire lifecycle, from initial research to final product—including market analysis after the product is released.