Unless you want to make money, then by all means…

I am a Product Manager. I have a Liberal Arts Education from Bryn Mawr & and a Design Strategy MBA from CCA. Before I went to Bryn Mawr I had the pleasure of working at…

Let’s start with a few assumptions: You are a Product Manager of a retail product. You are working on a new shopping cart experience, decomposing user stories or user flows into…

You have an idea, you have done customer research and a good round of competitive analysis, discovered a desirable idea with an addressable market, and now you want to create an MVP so you can test it with customers.

You have a good idea for a product and it passed the test. Now you want to make your great idea into an actual thing users can use- you think to yourself: “I know, I’ll make it into an app. Users will able to swipe through many wonderful things.”

From the philosophical, to the nitty-gritty, here are books that will boost your PM IQ, EQ, and overall bad-assery.

“Thinking in Systems” — Donella Meadows. Why read: all technology products are systems, no interactions happens totally independent of…