Cracking the PM Career: The Skills, Frameworks, and Practices to Become a Great Product Manager (Cracking the Interview & Career)

This book is fantastic. Bought copies for all my team. Incredible work 👍 I especially liked how pragmatic the authors are about blurry topics like vision strategy and roadmaps. It shows backbone that they have a preferred way of doing those and their practical experience shines through every piece of advice. Highly recommended for product managers at any stage of their career

I have been considering transitioning to Product Management from my Finance field and had been researching materials I could read to help with this transition.I got some recommendations about this book and so got it. I have found the content helpful as a good start.If you are like me trying to transition, you will find this helpful. I believe it could be helpful as a refresher for those already in the field!

I started as software engineer out of college where I have great ambition but no direction in the software tech industry.Gayle McDowell's book serves as a torch guiding the unknown path for me.  By reading her books i can start seeing more clearly what is around me (where i am standing) as well as a grand passage of what the journey looks like down the road and how to improve myself in order to progress forward."Cracking the PM Career" is just an amazing resource work done by Jackie Bavaro and Gayle Laakmann McDowellI have been in industry for 15 years now (SWE converted Product Manager), while i have accumulate knowledge & scars along the way as a Product Manager Lead at Meta.  I find it still incredibly helpful to read their books to fill my gaps and extend well-rounded knowledge.  The latest publish shares a lot great knowledge that will help you to be a even greater product manager.I strongly recommend this book to others wether you are an aspiring PM or already a PM, or PM Leader to refine yourself throughout reading!

Best book to learn the concepts of Product manager roles and responsibilities. As usual Amazon fast delivery with appropriate packing

I am so glad that Jackie and Gayle published this book after the great success of "cracking the pm interview". This new book is amazingly pragmatic, super hands on and translatable into every day life. What I really love is that they cover skills concerning 1) product, 2) execution, 3) strategy, 4) leadership, 5) people management. Followed by chapters around career and a product leader Q&A. They really work out how the skills of chapter 1-3 evolve with a PMs career path.The book has over 500 pages packed with insights, with aha moments and really the essence of product management. I am a pretty experienced product leader, however this centres me and takes me out of habits and back to growth trajectory. This book can be read and is valuable to PMs of all career stages.

This book is the best Product Management book I've come across. I'm mid to late stage career. Have been co-founder or VP level at several companies. Have lead PM at several startups with successful exits. And with all those decades of experience, there was still good new stuff - to me - in here to learn, and great refreshers on other items.As I read the book, I couldn't help thinking of the cliche about "if I'd only known this starting out." I definitely could have used these insights. (Of course, some things are 'sign of the times' specific... there was no "Agile" as it exists today. But that's not so much the point as compared to just having a better starting framework for what does exist in the now; whatever those things may be.) It might be that some things don't really hit home until you have the experience, even if you got the book learning. But still, at least you have a better sense of things if you've been exposed to the concepts.This is not a full "Body of Knowledge" (BOK) type work. But it is just full of practical sensible, "this is what you may be facing" type scenarios. New or junior PMs... just get this.