Name: Product Leadership
ISBN: 9781491960608

Nate Walkingshaw

Richard Banfield

Martin Eriksson

What is product management? -- Why is product leadership so relevant? -- Being a great product leader -- Is there a formula for success? -- Hiring product leadership -- The startup organization -- The emerging organization -- The enterprise organization -- Mapping the partner ecology -- Final words.

How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams

Product Leadership

In today’s lightning-fast technology world, good product management is critical to maintaining a competitive advantage. Yet, managing human beings and navigating complex product roadmaps is no easy task, and it’s rare to find a product leader who can steward a digital product from concept to launch without a couple of major hiccups. Why do some product leaders succeed while others don’t? This insightful book presents interviews with nearly 100 leading product managers from all over the world. Authors Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson, and Nate Walkingshaw draw on decades of experience in product design and development to capture the approaches, styles, insights, and techniques of successful product managers. If you want to understand what drives good product leaders, this book is an irreplaceable resource. In three parts, Product Leadership helps you explore: Themes and patterns of successful teams and their leaders, and ways to attain those characteristics Best approaches for guiding your product team through the startup, emerging, and enterprise stages of a company’s evolution Strategies and tactics for working with customers, agencies, partners, and external stakeholders

Cristian Garcia

I got this book thinking I was going to know more about how to build top-notch products, but instead I got an eye opener story about leadership, healthy work environments and how these elements create the foundation to deliver premium solutions. And that of course applies to every single department within a company, but here -when you have to influence without any power- recruitment, training and "attention to the person behind the employee" are critical to create cohesive, committed and passionate teams.

A great reading on pushing the business boundaries while keeping and nurturing healthy, transparent and safe work spaces.
At the end, great products come from great people.

Arturo Hernández

In general, it has a lot of interesting content however because of the writing format it doesn’t really get deep into any of the topics it covers. At the end it feels more like an overall introduction to Product Management, which is nice but not what I was expecting from this book.

João Maia

I'm pitty that I took too long to find this book it would had saved me 12 months of hard learning on the job. Nice entry book for product management!

Vince Nguyen

Amazing book on product leadership and product management. Insightful, practical tips and guidelines drawn from industry leaders. 

The book genuinely inspired me to learn more about PM and seek out challenges to take it to the next level - Product Leadership!

Raluca Piteiu

A good read for any person working with digital products, no matter your job title - Requirements engineer, Product owner, Business Analyst, Project manager, Developer, user experience designer.

Lance Willett

Wonderful overview of what it means to build software products and teams.

First key point: the best product leaders tell a story about the product in the context of a customer’s success.

Second key point: "Product Leads" are leaders and not just managers.

Product Lead’s job is not to constantly manage or direct, but lead the team by clearly articulating the goals. They provide context (via customers, market landscape).

I ❤️ this! "Dream in years; plan in months; evaluate in weeks; ship daily." —DJ Patil

Product leaders live at the intersection of business, technology, and UX/design. Deep experience in at least one of these, passionate about all three, and conversant with practitioners of all three. As people-first communicators, they get people to rally behind a vision, even without formal authority.

Peter Polgar

Plenty of good ideas and tips, however I missed an underlying framework or model. More of a leadership book than a product book.

Product Leadership How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams

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