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Escaping the Build Trap

How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value

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Escaping the Build Trap

Written 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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puts a lot of ideas I was familiar with into a coherent whole.
using a long running case study to illustrate the effectiveness of outcome focused approach that uses data and customer insights to construct experiments to learn and zero in on the problem/solution with minimal time and effort.

insightful

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its a treasure of knowledge for product managers. very enlightening. enjoyed it thoroughly. highly recommended especially for PMs working on customer facing p4oducts.

fantastic book. loved it.

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I wonder why people spend countless hours on YouTube when you can get such quality content in a well structured manner in one single place. This book os great for people in Product, technology, and leadership positions

No fluff.. quality and engaging content

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Strongly recommend it for all products teams who ate stuck in a feature factory .

must read for all product teams

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Excellent book on how Product
teams should work. Very few teams work the way suggested in the book, and even fewer succeed. Very well narrated also.

Great listen

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