Books
Impact-first Product Teams
(2025)
Around the world, product teams are waking up to the same uncomfortable truth: doing things “the right way” doesn’t matter if your team loses its funding or your company goes out of business. I wrote this book to provide clear-eyed and reality-tested guidance for teams looking to do the work that matters most to their particular business. Available in softcover, ebook, and author-read audiobook.
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Product Management in Practice
(Second Edition O'Reilly Media, 2022)
Product Management in Practice is a real-world guide to the day-to-day practice of product management. Incorporating stories from working product managers across industries and company sizes, this book focuses on the mission-critical connective skills that all product managers must develop to succeed in their work. Simply put, this is the book I wish somebody had handed me when I started working as a product manager. Available in softcover, ebook and author-read audiobook.
Agile for Everybody
(O'Reilly Media, 2018)
Agile for Everybody makes the principles and practices of the Agile movement accessible and actionable to everybody in a modern organization, from product managers and engineers to marketers and executives. Including real-world stories from Agile practitioners at companies like IBM, Spotify, and Coca-Cola, Agile for Everybody provides a jargon-free blueprint for how teams and organizations of all time can become faster, more flexible, and more customer-focused. Available in softcover, ebook and audiobook.