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—beyond the well-trodden “best practices” from Silicon Valley behemoths. Christina Wodtke, author of all-time favorite Radical Focus, calls Impact-first Product Teams “as charming as it is useful”—what more do you need?
You can order Impact-first Product Teams via Amazon here.
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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.
You can order Product Management in Practice via Amazon here.
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.
You can order Agile for Everybody via Amazon here.
Selected Articles
Living to fight another day when “success metrics” are out of reach.
How to avoid “gamifying” your product into oblivion.
Even the best customer service can’t fix the damage done by company-centric decision-making.