Untrapping Product Teams
Simplify the Complexity of Creating Digital Products
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pearson Education (US)
Published:15th May '24
Should be back in stock very soon
Empower Product Teams to Rock the World by Uncovering and Overcoming Dangerous Traps
Untrapping Product Teams guides you to simplify what gets unintentionally complicated and equips you to overcome dangerous traps while steadily driving customer and business value. This isn't just another book about product management. It's a thought-provoking guide filled with simplicity, encouraging you to act today for a better tomorrow.
This book is for anyone facing the challenges of working on or with product teams. It lays out leading best practices, combined with "secret ingredients" crafted by the author based on years of experience. Learn what makes or breaks product teams so you are ready to do what it takes to thrive with digital products.
- Learn the differences between coordinative and collaborative workflows
- Recognize dangerous traps and the strategies to overcome them
- Explore the product journey: simplify decision-making, apply mindful product discovery, use delivery to accelerate value, and measure results beyond outputs
- Craft product principles and set solid foundations for product teams
- Benefit from proven product health checks to uncover where to act today for a better tomorrow
"This is my new favorite book on product management. Untrapping Product Teams covers everything you need to know to lead a product team and be successful as a product manager. Author David Pereira does an excellent job of pointing out biases and thinking traps that doom products. The book is full of many insights and tools that will be useful for years to come."
--Mike Cohn, co-founder of Agile Alliance
"David's book shares several hard-earned lessons of what happens when product leaders, product managers, and especially product owners are not trained to succeed in their jobs, and they go on to make predictable and avoidable mistakes. This book can help you avoid some of these pitfalls."
--Marty Cagan, partner, Silicon Valley Product Group
"This book touches on all the daily essentials for a product person. It's a practical guide and a meta-analysis rolled into one, serving as the 'Greatest Hits' album of Product Management. Ideal for newcomers and an excellent refresher for those already immersed in the field."
--Petra Wille, author of Strong Product People
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"David's brilliant book will help you decipher the chaos of product management and show how to escape all the traps that may condemn your product teams to mediocrity."
--Maarten Dalmijn, author of Driving Value with Sprint Goals
"Untrapping Product Teams is the best way to transition your teams from delivery to empowered. Help your product teams break free of constraints and change the trajectory of your business with David's book. He speaks not just theory, but from experience."
--Aakash Gupta, author of Product Growth
"David wrote the book I wish I had read 20 years ago. Instead, I faced these common product team traps without a map of how to practically navigate them. This book is full of wisdom and inspiration for new and experienced product professionals alike. It will save you a lot of time and energy!"
--Simonetta Batteiger, CEO, Inclusive Leaders
"David's book is an antidote to bullshit management, and at the same time, it's so much more than that. It's a wake-up call for product teams to regain clarity and focus. It's a survival kit for every PM in the trenches facing a reality that other product books fail to acknowledge. There is no fluff, no ideal-world scenarios, only experience-based learnings and a generous amount of eye-opening honesty."
--Ioana Ognibeni, Product Lead and Coach
"For those seeking no BS product management, David has got you covered! This book is full of practical and easy-to-follow advice to help you stop building a feature factory. David provides you simple frameworks and templates to use immediately."
--Shyvee Shi, Product Lead at LinkedIn; author of Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI
"Real-world product management is messy and full of traps that prevent great outcomes. Use David's experience and nonprescriptive guidance to make good choices and help your company succeed."
--Gil Broza, Value Delivery and Agile Leadership Expert; author of Deliver Better Results
"I worry that many aspiring product managers will read Part I of this book and run away screaming. David lays bare the challenges that many will encounter in this role. The brave ones who venture to Part II will find practical advice and tools that will enable them to overcome those challenges and set them up for real success. If they press on to Part III, they will know how to stay that way. Plenty of experienced product people could also learn a thing or two to help them untrap themselves and their teams!"
--Phil Hornby, Product Coach, for product people
ISBN: 9780135335383
Dimensions: 230mm x 180mm x 15mm
Weight: 452g
272 pages