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Escaping the Build Trap

How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value

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Escaping the Build Trap

By: Melissa Perri
Narrated by: Erin deWard
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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

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It takes the ideas and principles from Outcomes over Outputs, and describes a teams journey in innovating, iterating and reviewing success.

Every Product Team and SMT should read!

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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.

Awesome and dangerous

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I mostly enjoyed the content and found it informative. However I found the narration very annoying and off putting, to the point that it was difficult to concentrate on the content... The narration style used would be better suited to a fairytale than a business book.

Good content, terrible narration

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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.

Excellent book really unusual voice over

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Excellent foundation for early PMs. Narrator's attempt to mimic characters unnecessary and cringey. Would recommend.

Solid content for starter Product Managers

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