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Escaping the Build Trap
- How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value
- Narrated by: Erin deWard
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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Summary
To stay competitive in today's market, organizations need to adopt a culture of customer-centric practices that focus on outcomes rather than outputs. Companies that live and die by outputs often fall into the "build trap", cranking out features to meet their schedule rather than the customer's needs.
In this book, Melissa Perri explains how laying the foundation for great product management can help companies solve real customer problems while achieving business goals. By understanding how to communicate and collaborate within a company structure, you can create a product culture that benefits both the business and the customer. You'll learn product management principles that can be applied to any organization, big or small.
In five parts, this book explores:
- Why organizations ship features rather than cultivate the value those features represent
- How to set up a product organization that scales
- How product strategy connects a company's vision and economic outcomes back to the product activities
- How to identify and pursue the right opportunities for producing value through an iterative product framework
- How to build a culture focused on successful outcomes over outputs
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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- Fredrik Wendt
- 03-10-21
Awesome and dangerous
The vast majority of this book is excellent in short: everything product wise. However there are some leadership/organizational design ideas which will stifle exactly what the book wants to foster/create. The upside is that this is only a small part of the book, and mostly not connected to or impacting the great content.
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- A. Eldon
- 26-11-23
Great content - wrong narrator
I found this difficult to listen to as I don't think the narrator was the best choice for this content. It felt like a being read a fairy tale instead of a business book. Nothing against the narrator, I just didn't gel with the style.
Otherwise the content was great.
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- Black2Sugars
- 19-12-23
Product management from the trenches
Explains the key roles in product development and provides key insights into its mechanics as well as practical tips on how to succeed
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- B. Britton
- 06-12-23
A worthwhile read, if laboured points
Whilt I understand that there are a plethora of individuals that can read/perform audio books, I don't quite understand why this is read by someone that's a stage actor and not someone that is more familiar with technical books. the reading was very difficult to get into and stick with at times, and I think this is due to the way the narrator was performing the book.
outside of that, a worthwhile read, although some.laboured points that could've been more succinct in their description, without necessitating a whole back story.
again though, worth it if you want to understand the concept of the build trap and how you can help combat your organization in falling into it.
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- David Avis
- 03-05-21
Excellent book really unusual voice over
The voice over on this is really distracting. Unusual enunciation, strange deeper and lighter tones - very distracting to the content and found myself wondering off on that / tuning out because of it.
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- Zena Amos
- 05-07-22
Every Product Team and SMT should read!
It takes the ideas and principles from Outcomes over Outputs, and describes a teams journey in innovating, iterating and reviewing success.
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- Anonymous User
- 23-10-20
Solid content for starter Product Managers
Excellent foundation for early PMs. Narrator's attempt to mimic characters unnecessary and cringey. Would recommend.
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- John
- 27-01-23
Good content but ..
Good content and generally informative but the narration is not to my liking, would actually consider buying the actual book.
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- imogen hesp
- 28-12-22
My go to product book - practical and relatable
Melissa Perri passes on the practical knowledge she’s gained doing product. Her examples are relatable and reflect what it’s like to be a digital product owner, manager, or leader. My number 1 book for those in or interested in a product career. All meat and no waffle. If your a product person looking for inspirational things to say in meetings to make you look good - this book is not for you. It’s for the doers and the thinkers not the watchers.
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- Adrian Akers
- 21-01-24
A must read!
Have worked in product for many years and this is easily one of the best books I would recommend to anyone aiming to be a product led organisation. Follow the guidance given in this book and you will see a new product DNA in your organisation.
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