I’m working on a new workshop for Product Owners, called PO as a service. (The public version I hope to grow into PO Retreat)
In the manual for this workshop, I added a list of books for Product Owners.
yet I know I the best things are co-created with a community hence I tweeted:
I’m creating a list of books for Product owners.
What book did help you to become a better product owner?
(RT for inspiration for creating better User stories )
— Yves Hanoulle 🇪🇺 Write English/Dutch read French (@YvesHanoulle) November 23, 2019
The list below was created with the help of the community.
Product ownership
- User Story Mapping, Jeff Patton
- Impact Mapping, Gojko Adzic
- Specification by Example, Gojko Adzic
- Agile Product Management with Scrum, Roman Pichler
- Discover to Deliver: Agile Product Planning and Analysis,Ellen Gottesdiener & Mary Gorman
- Product Mastery, Geoff Watt
- The Nature of Software Development, Ron Jeffries
- Leading Lean software development, Mary Poppendieck
- The Principles of Product Development Flow, Don G Reinertsen
- Developing Products in Half the Time, Don G Reinertsen
- Build better products, Laura Klein
- Little bets, Peter Sims
- Escaping the Build Trap, Melissa Perri
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, Nir Eyal
- Jobs to be done, Tony Ulwick
- Competing Against Luck, Clayton Christensen
- value proposition design, Strategyzer Team
- testing-business-ideas,David J Bland
- Exploring Requirements: Quality Before Design, Donald C. Gause & Gerald Weinberg
- Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve your User Stories, Gojko Adzic & David Evans
- Sense & Respond,Jeff Gothelf & Josh Seiden
- Beyond Requirements:Analysis with an Agile Mindset, Kent McDonald
- Lean Product Playbook, Dan Olsen
- The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, Eric Ries
- Four steps to epiphany, Steve Blank
- The Art of Business Value,Mark Schwartz
- Scrum Product Ownership: Navigating the Forest AND the Trees , Bob Galen
- Own it: 8 simple secrets of product owner succes, Arto Kiiskinen
- The Mom test, Rob Fitzpatrick Tip from Stijn De Cneut)
- Continuous Discovery Habits, Teresa Torres
- Product Led Growth, Wes Bush
Vision
- Measure what matters, John Doerr
- Start with why, Simon Sinek
- Inspired, Marty Cagan
- The inevitable, Kevin Kelly
- Crossing the chasm, Geoffrey Moore
- Business Model Generation, Alexander Osterwalder
- Strategize, Roman Pichler
Design
- About Face, Alan Cooper
- The design of everyday things, Donald A. Norman
- Well designed:How to Use Empathy to Create Products People Love, Jon Kolko
- The Inmates are running the asylum, Alan Cooper
- Don’t make me think, Steve Krug
- Humans VS Computers, Gojko Adzic
- Lean UX:Designing Great Products with Agile Teams, Jeff Gothelf & Josh Seiden
- The power of habits, Charles Duhigg
- atomic habits, James Clear
- Hooked, Nir Eyal
- Designing for Behavior Change: Applying Psychology and Behavioral Economics, Stephen Wendel
- Measuring and Improving Social Impacts: A Guide for Nonprofits, Companies, and Impact Investors, Mark Epstein
Way of working
- Innovation Games, Luke Hohmann
- Wave Rider, Harrison Owen
- Theory U, Otto Scharmer
- The Manager’s Path, Camille Fournier
- Training From the back of the room, Sharon L. Bowman
- The Cynefin mini book, Greg Broughman
- KNOWLEDGE HYDRANT:
A PATTERN LANGUAGE FOR STUDY GROUPS , from Joshua Kerievsky &
Industrial Logic, Inc.
Video:
- Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell, best introduction video about product ownership.
Articles:
- Decisions, Decisions or Why Baskets of Options Dominate, Kent Beck
- Hamburger method to split user stories, Anca Onuta
- INVEST in good stories, Bill Wake
- Wardley Maps, Simon Wardley
- Swashbooking
- xtrem-reading
Cards & game
- Product owner coaching cards, Geoff Watts
- Split patterns for backlog items, co-learning
- PO value game, Paul Kuijten & Dajo Breddels
- Product Owner Cards, Zornitsa Nikolova & Tsvetelina Peteva
- Business Value Game from Zuzi Sochova, inspired on the same game from Vera Peeters & Pascal Van Cauwenbergh
At the bottom of my own bookpage, you can find all the bookslists I have gathered since 2010.