Cracking the PM Career: The Skills, Frameworks, and Practices To Become a Great Product Manager (Cracking the Interview & Career)
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Product management is a big role, and this a big book. From the authors of the best-selling Cracking the PM Interview comes the comprehensive guide to the skills, frameworks, and practices to become a great product manager. It will help you level-up your skills and career from your first product management role through product leadership, addressing questions like: What does it take to become a great product manager and great leader? How can you reliably ship products that make a difference in the world? How do you build your product intuition, hone your execution, strengthen your leadership, and develop your strategic skills? What does it take to lead and inspire teams? When is people management the right career move? How does excellence in those skills translate into career success? This book will teach you the reliable frameworks and best practices that improve your chances of giving a successful product. The frameworks won't transform you into a great product manager overnight or that your products never fail, but they'll help you avoid the most common problems and give you the structure to start experimenting, reflecting, and improving. You'll learn how to: Design products that delight users and solve people's needs. Run and deliver your projects quickly, smoothly, and effectively. Create product visions and strategies to set direction and optimize for long-term impact. Lead people and influence without authority. Manage people, develop great PMs, build great teams, and create great product organizations. Manage your career so you can translate your efforts into the recognition you deserve. Topics include: Getting Started: the product life cycle; the first 90 days Product Skills: user research; A/B tests; problem solving frameworks; systems thinking; product discovery; design sprints; ethical product design; technical terms and concepts; product documentation (specs and PRDs) Execution Skills: agile project management; minimum viable products (MVPs); incremental development; product launches; time management; overcoming obstacles Strategic Skills: product vision; strategy; roadmaps; goals and OKRs Leadership Skills: growth mindset; ownership mentality; influencing without authority; stakeholder management; collaboration; communication; inspiring a team; mentoring; working with designers, engineers, and executives People Management Skills: becoming a people manager; being a member of the leadership team; reviewing work; holding people accountable; coaching and development; recruiting and interviewing; product processes; organizational structures Careers: career ladders; career goals; partnering with your manager; picking the right team; negotiations; networking; handling bad situations; career options beyond PM Product Leader Q&A: in-depth career interviews with eleven successful product leaders who have chosen career paths including CPO, head of product, CEO, social impact work, venture capital, angel investing, coaching, and starting their own companies. Review: Good item - Best Review: Great Book - Best book to learn the concepts of Product manager roles and responsibilities. As usual desertcart fast delivery with appropriate packing
| Best Sellers Rank | #80,148 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #346 in Self-Help for the Workplace |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 429 Reviews |
J**H
Good item
Best
M**E
Great Book
Best book to learn the concepts of Product manager roles and responsibilities. As usual Amazon fast delivery with appropriate packing
A**N
This will lay the foundation for u in the PM role.
Anyone who is aspiring to be a PM should read this book!
S**I
An important book
Very good book for those who want to start their career in product management. A very detailed explanation is provided.
M**R
Very poor print quality
very poor print quality and difficult to read due to poor printing
A**R
Not the original book
The book looks like is printed from a converted epub file. The size of the fonts are so small that it is really really hard to read.
H**S
Don't order the print version - small text size
The text size is too small. It strains my eyes if I have to read for more than 10 minutes. It is ironic that a book about PM career has such a bad user experience.
E**A
Good start for new Product Managers
I have been considering transitioning to Product Management from my Finance field and had been researching materials I could read to help with this transition. I got some recommendations about this book and so got it. I have found the content helpful as a good start. If you are like me trying to transition, you will find this helpful. I believe it could be helpful as a refresher for those already in the field!
N**N
Love it
Very interesting book
B**N
Great book that will help you as a PM and as a person
I started as software engineer out of college where I have great ambition but no direction in the software tech industry. Gayle McDowell's book serves as a torch guiding the unknown path for me. By reading her books i can start seeing more clearly what is around me (where i am standing) as well as a grand passage of what the journey looks like down the road and how to improve myself in order to progress forward. "Cracking the PM Career" is just an amazing resource work done by Jackie Bavaro and Gayle Laakmann McDowell I have been in industry for 15 years now (SWE converted Product Manager), while i have accumulate knowledge & scars along the way as a Product Manager Lead at Meta. I find it still incredibly helpful to read their books to fill my gaps and extend well-rounded knowledge. The latest publish shares a lot great knowledge that will help you to be a even greater product manager. I strongly recommend this book to others wether you are an aspiring PM or already a PM, or PM Leader to refine yourself throughout reading!
F**R
Perhaps the best books for product managers
I am so glad that Jackie and Gayle published this book after the great success of "cracking the pm interview". This new book is amazingly pragmatic, super hands on and translatable into every day life. What I really love is that they cover skills concerning 1) product, 2) execution, 3) strategy, 4) leadership, 5) people management. Followed by chapters around career and a product leader Q&A. They really work out how the skills of chapter 1-3 evolve with a PMs career path. The book has over 500 pages packed with insights, with aha moments and really the essence of product management. I am a pretty experienced product leader, however this centres me and takes me out of habits and back to growth trajectory. This book can be read and is valuable to PMs of all career stages.
C**R
Best book on PM by far with the most actionable advice
I have been reading many books on product management already and this one is by far the most actionable and helpful. The authors really managed to touch everything that makes up product management (and even go beyond) without ever becoming too general and vague. This will be my first recommendation for aspiring Product Managers and Product Leaders. I’m sure I’ll frequently be referring back to it.
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