Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams

Overview:

This insightful book presents interviews with nearly 100 leading product managers from all over the world. Authors Richard Banfield, Martin Eriksson, and Nate Walkingshaw draw on decades of experience in Product Design and Development to capture the approaches, styles, insights, and techniques of successful Product Managers. This book is an irreplaceable resource if you want to understand what drives good Product Leaders.

The Product Leadership book presents you all insightful tips and strategies in three parts, where you can explore:

  • Themes and patterns of successful teams and leaders, and how they attained those characteristics
  • Best approaches for guiding Product Team through the startup, emerging, and enterprise stages of a company’s evolution
  • Strategies and tactics useful to work with customers, agencies, partners, and external stakeholders

Authors:

Richard Banfield

Published In:

2017

Improv-Ing Agile Teams: Using Constraints to Unlock Creativity | Book Series

Overview:  This book “Improv-Ing Agile Teams: Using Constraints to Unlock Creativity” explores how the simple rules and principles used by improvisational actors can help agile teams collaborate more effectively, and how it helps to purposefully work within constraints and unlock creativity.

Inside this book, you will find nearly 50 techniques and the games specially designed for agile teams which are completely explained in step-by-step instructions. The games illustrated in this book are based on five different principles that are similar to the ones that are used in improvisational theatres, listed below:

  • SAFETY
  • SPONTANEITY
  • STORYTELLING
  • STATUS
  • SENSITIVITY

Authors:

Paul Goddard

Published In:

2015