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Product/Technical Leadership Books

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Great resources for developing product & technical leadership skills!
 
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Published in 2009, but hands-down the best book for leadership of Agile teams, the right way. Written by one of the founding fathers of agile
Agile Project Management: Innovative Products
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Pretty dense, but actually really good if you can get through all of the in-text citations that just make it harder to read. Goes in-depth on different leadership styles and behaviors. Definitely would recommend reading the case studies - they're mos...
Leadership: Theory and Practice
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The best book for thinking about how to rapidly bring new products to market. Really easy to read too
The Lean Product Playbook
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Really good & easy read that will influence your perspective on how to solve problems
Upstream
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Great read that details the OKR (objectives & key results) goal-setting system used by tons of high-performing technical teams
Measure What Matters
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Awesome read. It's a ~fictional~ story (so easy to read and interesting) that's based in reality about a company that needs to go through a radical DevOps transformation in order to save the business. Tons of lessons about leadership in here.
The Phoenix Project
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Companion to The Phoenix Project, but written through the lens of a software engineering leader, so it's a little more applicable to product leadership since we're typically closer to engineering leads than DevOps. Really great perspective, but would...
The Unicorn Project
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Visually-driven, colloquially-written book that covers the basics behind the concepts you'd learn in an MBA program
The Visual MBA
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