Ask HN: are there any "must read" product management books?

11 points by ambertch 15y ago ↗ HN

I'm looking to get some fresh ideas to improve our product lifecycle.

A quick Amazon search turns up a lots of stuff, but I'm not sure which books are for us - in particular, even if the book is very good I am not sure if it is targeted towards say enterprise vs. an small, everyone-wears-multiple-hats agile team.

With software development you've got "must reads" like Code Complete that basically are relevant to any programmer regardless of environment, so I wonder if there's analogous tomes for product?

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mathgladiator 15y ago ↗

I think the book Managing Humans is a wonderful book on management.

http://www.managinghumans.com/

klbarry 15y ago ↗

The website is great, really simple and original.

pdelgallego 15y ago ↗

A classic book is "The mythical man of the month", It was published in 1975, but its worth reading.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

benkant 15y ago ↗

It's "The Mythical Man-Month".

Which makes sense given the content of the book.

jmenu 15y ago ↗

steve blank's Four Steps to the Epiphany. Steve also has a list of books on his website, steveblank.com/books-for-startups.

brudgers 15y ago ↗

Augustine's Laws

Like the mythical man month, only not mythical.

http://www.amazon.com/Augustines-Chairman-Lockheed-Corporati...

trequartista 15y ago ↗

See: http://www.quora.com/Product-Management/What-are-the-best-bo...?

mailarchis 15y ago ↗

You should check out Inspired - How to create products customer love by Marty Cagan. I found it extremely concise and useful.

http://www.amazon.com/Inspired-Create-Products-Customers-Lov...

sachitgupta 15y ago ↗

Making Things Happen by Scott Berkun.