Power Up Product Management

A Quick Start Guide

Allison J. Taylor, Christopher Naunheimer, Chris Naunheimer

• Publisher: Productivity Press
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040308165
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

Power Up Product Management: A Quick Start Guide delivers a compact guide with expert guidance, tools, and exercises that empower new product managers to excel in their first weeks in their new position. Learn what it takes to build and sell outstanding products, how to define product value to impact product success, and why real-world product managers have failed or succeeded in gaining market traction.

The first in a series, this book helps anyone new to product go-to-market to quickly understand the overall product management function, including common product development methodologies, the criticality of "voice of customer," product stage definitions, and other PM essentials. The authors bring over 20 years of experience delivering software and hardware products globally for Fortune 500 companies and high-tech start-ups. Insights are delivered through real-life PM vignettes and to-the-point structured sections, making the quick start guide practical for both working PMs and new grads, or those considering a future PM or go-to-market career path. Executive leadership also benefits from the curated view into product management, which helps to develop a shared organizational-wide vision to guide improvements in people, process, and technology.

The book fills a gap in the market as an essential job companion with a fresh combination of knowledge, fun, and hands-on exercises to rapidly upskill or cross-skill in one of the most in-demand job areas today.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Preface
• Foreword by Kim Hoffmann
• Foreword by Joshua Tamayo-Sarver
• Book Introduction by Sherri Douville
• Introduction – Prepare to Succeed
• 1 Your Role as a Product Manager
• 2 Getting to Know Your Product
• 3 People
• 4 Knowledge
• 5 Product Life Cycle Process
• 6 Tech Development Processes
• 7 Tools
• 8 Skills to Succeed
• 9 Next Steps
• Appendix
• Index