Brief Summary of Escaping the Build Trap

“Escaping the Build Trap – How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value” by Melissa Perri, is a wonderful book on Product management – a must read for Product managers. With lots of great examples, the book takes you through various concepts of Product management, the importance of Outcomes over Outputs, the need for organizations to be Product-led instead of being Sales-led how to make the Product manager effective, having a vision, strategy and initiatives for an organization and a focus on customer centricity.

The book ends with these 6 questions which help you to ensure that the company will support and encourage you to do everything you can do to succeed
* Who came up with the last feature or product idea you built?
* What was the last product you decided to kill?
* When was the last time you talked to your customers?
* What is your goal?
* What are you currently working on?
* What are your product managers like?

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Brief Summary of Business Model Generation

Business Model generation by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur revolves round the Business Model canvas and how one could come out with creating or relooking at business models. Through lots of examples, the authors amplify the use of the canvas. A must read for those into new product development and want to revisit their business models.

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