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20 Top Product Management Books for 2021

Alchemer Mobile

Going back to basics to find inspiration has been one way expert product managers adjusted their strategies to meet rapidly-shifting consumer needs. Is there a pattern underlying how technologies hook us?Nir How to Create Products and Services Customers Want. creating compelling products and services customers want to buy.

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How to Deal With Unknown Unknowns in Project Planning

Amplitude

This is a guest post from Dillon Forest, cofounder, CTO & product manager at RankScience. One litmus test for this: if you’re working on your product and you hit a roadblock, and you can’t find a satisfactory answer to your question on Stack Overflow. Do some user research. Make some mockups.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis (Guest essay by Li Jin)

Andrew Chen

No wonder the consumer investment team ended up digging into this trend by doing a market map report — the analysis led by Li Jin and including work from myself, Connie Chan, and others. Without further adieu, here’s the a16z consumer team’s definitive analysis of the podcast ecosystem in 2019. Thanks, Andrew.

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My Biggest Takeaways?—?Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup

The Product Coalition

He considered product managers to be on a spectrum from “librarian” who is focused on facilitating communication and coordination to “poet” who formulates product strategy based on customer insights. During the process, I also gained a much deeper understanding of the technologies we are building and how the company operates.

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The Disproportionate Impact of Coaching on Startup Survival

Bain Public

FUN FACT: It is actually thanks to the coaching service for innovative and technological SMBs (PMEit) administered by MAIN that we’ve been able to work with some of our incredible clients, Wastack , LiveScale , Blaise Transit and Enkidoo , and provide them with product management, consultancy and coaching support. Are you a product manager?

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Don’t Miss These Speakers at #mtpcon San Francisco

Mind the Product

At Benchmark, Sarah invests in consumer businesses and the consumerization of IT. Leisa Reichelt, Head of Research and Insights at Atlassian. Leisa is responsible for building a better understanding of users and customers at Atlassian. Cindy Alvarez, Author and Principle Researcher at Microsoft.

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The Podcast Ecosystem in 2019 – a16z’s 68 page analysis

Andrew Chen

No wonder the consumer investment team ended up digging into this trend by doing a market map report — the analysis led by Li Jin, Avery Segal and Bennett Carroccio, including work from myself, Connie Chan, and others. Without further adieu, here’s the a16z consumer team’s definitive analysis of the podcast ecosystem in 2019.