Untrapping Product Teams: Simplify the Complexity of Creating Digital Products

Description

Empower Your Product Teams to Rock the World!

Untrapping Product Teams guides you to simplify what gets unintentionally complicated. It 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, stimulating you to act today for a better tomorrow.

You will get familiar with leading practices combined with secret ingredients crafted by author David Pereira after years of experience. You will learn what makes or breaks product teams. Ultimately, you will get ready to do what it takes to thrive with digital products.

"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

Extras

Author's Site

Visit David Pereira's site: https://www.d-pereira.com

Visit David on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidavpereira

Sample Content

Table of Contents

Foreword by Ash Maurya
Foreword by Jim Highsmith
Preface
About the Author

Introduction

Part I: Facing Dangerous Traps
Chapter 1: How Common Ways of Working Trap or Untrap Teams
Chapter 2: The Mindset Impacts on Dangerous Traps
Chapter 3: What Distracts Teams from Creating Value

Part II: Overcoming Dangerous Traps
Chapter 4: Using the Right Ingredients for Product Teams
Chapter 5: Crafting a Meaningful Product Strategy
Chapter 6: Forget What You Know to Get Ready for the Unknown
Chapter 7: Embarking on a Journey to Discover What Matters
Chapter 8: Enabling Product Delivery Beyond Outputs
Chapter 9: Defining and Measuring Actionable Metrics
Chapter 10: Setting the Teams Right
Chapter 11: Building Solid Relationships

Part III: Remaining Untrapped
Chapter 12: Establishing Product Principles
Chapter 13: Assessing Your Companys Dynamics
Chapter 14: Evaluating How Your Product Strategy Simplifies Decision-Making
Chapter 15: Understanding How Quickly You Can Drop Bad Ideas
Chapter 16: Examining How Fast You Can Drive Business and Customer Value
Wrap Up

Appendix: Untrapping Lessons

Bibliography
Index

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