Top 10 Most Frequently Recommended Product Books

What are those in the industry recommending to others

Robert Drury
Getting Started in Product
7 min readMay 29, 2021

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As a product manager, and a writer on product management, I spend a lot of time reading content from other great creators, so that I can continue to learn from the best.

And one thing about the product management community is that they love to recommend other content, especially when it comes to books. I’m pretty sure that any serious product manager has a shelf within arms reach of their desk with a few key books placed on it.

From my trawling of the web, the following are the ten most frequently recommended books from those leading the function of product management.

Sprint: How To Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

Jake Knapp

Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What’s the most important place to focus your effort, and how do you start? What will your idea look like in real life? How many meetings and discussions does it take before you can be sure you have the right solution?

Now there’s a surefire way to answer these important questions: the sprint. Designer Jake Knapp created the five-day process at Google, where sprints were used…

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Robert Drury
Getting Started in Product

Helping people kick start their product management career with product coaching, job application prep, & resources at gettingstartedinproduct.substack.com