On My Shelf with Hari Vinod — Group Product Manager at Tally Solutions (Bengaluru)
About me
I am a huge people person and I have spent several years in Product Management. I create delightful products for diverse customers to achieve scale. I focus on collaboration between customer and company with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver successful results.
On my shelf
Hooked
How to Build Habit-Forming Products
by Nir Eyal
My opinion
What is a habit? “Behaviours done with little or no conscious thought.” Why do some products capture widespread attention while others flop? What makes us engage with certain products out of sheer habit? If you want to get a glimpse into the mind of users you should read this book. Further material.
256 pages, Portfolio Penguin 2014
The Mom Test
How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
by Rob Fitzpatrick
My opinion
Talking to customers is one of the foundational skills of both Customer Development and Lean Startup. We all know we’re supposed to do it, but nobody seems willing to admit that it’s easy to screw up and hard to do right. This book is going to show you how customer conversations go wrong and how you can do better.
138 pages, Robfitz Ltd 2016
The Lean Product Playbook
How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback
by Dan Olsen
My opinion
The Lean Product Playbook is a practical guide to building products that customers love. This book helps improve your chances of building successful products through clear, step-by-step guidance and advice. If you are interested in Lean Startup principles and want to apply them to develop winning products, this book is for you. This book describes the Lean Product Process: a repeatable, easy-to-follow methodology for iterating your way to product-market fit.
336 pages, Wiley 2015
Inspired
How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
by Marty Cagan
My opinion
In INSPIRED, technology product management thought leader Marty Cagan provides readers with a master class in how to structure and staff a vibrant and successful product organization, and how to discover and deliver technology products that your customers will love―and that will work for your business.
368 pages, Wiley 2017
The Design of Everyday Things
by Don Norman
My opinion
The Design of Everyday Things shows that good, usable design is possible. The rules are simple: make things visible, exploit natural relationships that couple function and control, and make intelligent use of constraints. The goal: guide the user effortlessly to the right action on the right control at the right time. The Design of Everyday Things is a powerful primer on how — and why — some products satisfy customers while others only frustrate them.
368 pages, Basic Books 2013
Start with Why
How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
by Simon Sinek
My opinion
Why are some people and organizations more inventive, pioneering, and successful than others? And why are they able to repeat their success again and again? Because in business it doesn’t matter what you do, it matters why you do it. Simon Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY.
256 pages, Portfolio 2011
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