Matt LeMay - Product Management in Practice: A Practical, Tactical Guide for Your First Day and Every Day After

Just get this book, OK? From start to finish it teaches hard-won lessons from the real-world challenges facing product people today, remote or in person. If you make products for a living, the answers youve been looking for throughout your career are here waiting for you.

Scott Berkun, Author of Making Things Happen and The Myths of Innovation

Product management is one of the most sought-after roles of the 21st century. It is also one of the most poorly understood and widely variable in its expectations. This book examines the requirements, expectations, and realities of the role, beautifully illustrated with real-life examples. It challenges the myth that product management is only available to a select few, and shapes it into a practice that is accessible to everybody. I recommend the book as a desk reference for all current and future product managers irrespective of where they are in their career trajectory.

Praneeta Paradkar, Director, Product Management, Broadcom Software

"This is an indispensable guide to navigating the daily ambiguity and compromise that define product management once you realize there is no one right way to do the job. In these pages Matt leads you past the theory to how to really get the job done in the real world, underlining each insight with stories from practicing product managers.

Martin Eriksson, Cofounder of Mind the Product and Coauthor of Product Leadership

This book embraces all the complexity and ambiguity that product people navigate every day. It does not try to oversimplify product management into a handful of frameworks. Instead, it is a practical, hands-on guide full of real-world stories about how other product people are approaching their work. Product Management in Practice recreates the experience of learning directly from senior product managers across industries and organizations and captures those learnings in concise summaries and easy-to-use checklists.

Petra Wille, Author of Strong Product People and Product Leadership Coach

Matts book is a must-read for any junior and more experienced PM, for engineers who often dont have much understanding of the PM world, and for executives interested in exploring better ways to enable their product teams and drive greater innovation. The book shares compelling stories anchored in todays reality, and contains a myriad of pragmatic tips and checklists. Far from a dry and stuffy manual, this book focuses on the real-world complexity of the role, the true conditions and constraints in which product managers operate today. It beautifully captures the human, connective, and messy nature of the PM role. A must-add to any product organizations book club!

Shaaron A Alvares, Senior Manager, Agile Delivery and Transformation, Salesforce

Matt is one of the brightest product people I know, and our conversations clarify the art of product management. This book makes those conversations available to the broader product community, enriching the reader with both Matts experience and one of his best skills: the ability to extend and open new paths to think about everyday challenges.

Adam Thomas, Principal, Approaching One

Matt LeMay is a guiding force in the demystification of product management. This book is a reflection of his pragmatic approach to the many complexities and uncertainties that traverse ones entire career in product management. Matt understands that this is difficult work that heightens the complexity of having shared goals to attain while maintaining your humanity. He gives us actionable steps to manage those waters. As Matt says, Step into the discomfort. I highly recommend all of Matts writings and am excited to see an updated edition that speaks to the evolution of our craft and discipline.

Cliff Barrett, VP of Product, ChowNow