The Product Book: How to Become a Great Product Manager

Caveat: I attended Product School. This is a summarized practical guide containing everything you need to start as a product manager in a tech company. I particularly found the advice about cross-functional collaboration, soft skills, and engaging with engineering, design, and product marketing teams valuable. Any new product manager will find this a good precursor to their day one.

A helpful and insightful read, though unfortunately frustratingly marred by hundreds of spelling errors. Poor QA'ing for a Product Management book.

Nice, soft, and non-overloaded overview and introduction into the nature of the Product Management life. Most of the criticism seems to come from people who already have a career in product management or have done substantial learning on the topic. This book is clearly not for them. Also, it is not the "Get hired as Product Manager" book. I would recommend it to the people who want all-encompassing knowledge of what a Product Manager does at their job. Yes, it has plenty of mentions of other books. When you work as a Product Manager, you will read plenty of other books. It is actually a great place to find out which books on what topics to read to become an awesome product manager.

As an aspiring PM, this book is a great road map to growing my skills in the field. I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to grow as a product manager.

I was excited when I heard about this book and was quick to purchase it. Because Success Matters, my interest in Marketing and Storytelling has compelled me to purchase this book. My goal of being an effective communicator is a good goal, and this book as an effective tool can be used towards that goal. I'm grateful for all the efforts, knowledge, and time that was taken for its creation. Thank you, Bert

I have several product management books, and I almost never reach for this one because it doesn’t have an index. This means I’m never able to use it for quick reference. The material I do manage to find is very general. It’s potentially useful if you’re looking to get into product management, but I can’t recommend it over anything else - especially when other books utilize an index.

The Product Book is a great book: gives great coverage of the product environment and general and the non-controversial tools that every Product Manager should be aware of and probably using. What the book is not: a field manual. If you are product person who still needs to evangelize in their organization, this book is a great reference.

This is a great book that covers all the basics that a product manager goes through with excellent recommendations. If you’re new to PM o ever even think of becoming one, this book will be your test. After reading this you’ll know if product management is for you.

O Livro tem ótimas orientações, de coisas que inclusive fazemos normalmente e não percebemos como podem ser valiosas na gestão de TI.

Provides a good summary, a selection of models to implement as well as links to other resources. Accessible read. Worth reading.

This book is for people that are generally interested in transitioning to software Product Management but that may not have extensive experience and/or knowledge in the field yet. It covers a lot of aspects of the job and tries to give concrete examples, which is good, especially with the fictional company that’s used throughout the book. Lots of reference are made to recognized sources and the list of additional readings at the end is very useful. But it really feels only as an introduction to the topic and, particularly towards the end, as a huge ad for Product School (which it definitely is, and I’ve known it from the start, to be honest). I don’t regret reading it but it’s true, as I’ve read in another comment, it could have been shorter without losing depth (and maybe a shorter version would have allowed less typos through!)

Me gustó mucho el hacer notar que la gente habla a veces de un ideal pero ese no es como usa un producto a diario, es mejor ver el uso que le da al producto y en su contexto

Really good and useful book with lots of practical advice