Tag: book
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“Working Backwards” (Book Review)
It feels like a lifetime ago when I first wrote about product management practices at Amazon. Nine years ago I write a post about product management at Amazon. Since then I’ve come across a number of valuable practices that have out of Amazon, and the thinking behind them. Reading “Working Backwards” by Colin Bryar and…
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My reflections on new product management tensions
It’s been 2 years since I published “Managing Product = Managing Tension”. In the book I cover the common tensions inherent in managing products and offer practical ways in which product managers can deal with this. I’ve received a lot of positive reactions to the book from people who have recognised the challenges I outlined…
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“Thinking in Systems” (Book Review)
“Thinking in Systems” is a short but pretty dense book about systems thinking. Its author, the late Donella H. Meadows, was an environmental scientist who back in the Seventies started applying the then relatively new tools of system thinking to global problems. In “Thinking in Systems” Meadows covers the three aspects of any system in…
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“The IPO Playbook” (Book Review)
Steve Cakebread is a CFO with a lot of experience in leading companies to Initial Public Offering (IPO). In his earlier career Cakebread worked at Autodesk, Silicon Graphics and Hewlett-Packard, after which he was involved in three successful IPOs, at Salesforce, Pandora and Yext respectively. In “The IPO Playbook” Cakebread shares his lessons learned and…
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“Building for everyone” (Book Review)
Creating inclusive products is at the heart of “Building for everyone”, a great book written by Annie Jean-Baptiste. Jean-Baptiste is the Head of Product Inclusion at Google and has been at the forefront of making the web work for underserved communities. At the beginning of “Building for everyone” Jean-Baptiste summarises what her work (and this…
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