Various books and articles are keeping me busy with useful ideas and perspectives this Fall, such as the following:<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Articles on Product Management:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0I must admit I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had some rather poor experiences with Product Managers lately, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been digging deep into what it means to be leading the product function of an organization. What are their goals, drivers, criteria for success? Indeed, these articles have provided quite a bit of insight, and even promoted just a little<\/em> bit of empathy for those performing that role ;-) See below.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s talk about Product Management (Greylock Perspectives)<\/a> by Josh Elman<\/p>\n What I learned at Slack (a multi-part series)<\/a> by Kenneth Berger\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n How make a firehose of feedback useful<\/a> (via Kenneth Berger)<\/p>\n The role of a Product Manager<\/a> by Michael Siliski<\/p>\n Steven Sinofsky\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s response to that article<\/a><\/p>\n How to hire a Product Manager<\/a> by Ken Norton<\/p>\n PM at Microsoft<\/a> by Steven Sinofsky\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n Any and all articles<\/a> by Marty Cagan :-) \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Articulating Design Decisions<\/em><\/strong> by Tom Greever \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A good basic collection of wisdom and lessons which provide on how to effectively argue, defend, rationalize design decisions of tactical to strategic value, to a variety of specific stakeholders (engineering, business, clients, etc.) \/\/ Amazon link<\/a> \/\/<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Design Sprint<\/em><\/strong> by Banfield\/Lombardo\/Wax \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Excellent survey of the formal \u00e2\u20ac\u0153design sprint\u00e2\u20ac\u009d methodology derived from Google Ventures sprint model, and explained as a cookbook-style format for usage in your work context with Devs and PMs to achieve maximum impact. Lotsa great stories, examples, and photos. I got this book after hearing the authors\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 webcast via O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Reilly recently.\u00c2\u00a0\/\/ Amazon link<\/a> \/\/<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Designing Business<\/em><\/strong> by Clement Mok \u00e2\u20ac\u201d An oldie, but a goodie! This was I believe my very first design book purchase at a Waldenbooks (remember them?) in Ann Arbor in 1996. While it is almost 20 years old, the concepts and terminology written from the fresh-eyed view of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153new digital media\u00e2\u20ac\u009d still bears relevance as the profession morphs with more complexity and tools. Definitely worth re-reading.\u00c2\u00a0\/\/ Amazon link<\/a> \/\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Various books and articles are keeping me busy with useful ideas and perspectives this Fall, such as the following: \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Articles on Product Management:\u00c2\u00a0I must admit I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had some rather poor experiences with Product Managers lately, so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been digging deep into what it means to be leading the product function of an organization. What … Continue reading “Reading List: Fall 2015”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1054,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghostinthepixel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}