Top product management resources for Summer 2025
Whether you’re brushing up on fundamentals or exploring new trends, the resources below will help you level up as a product manager. We’ve curated a few books, podcasts, and papers across key areas in product, with a mix of recent releases and a few timeless classics. What is your favourite product resource? We’d love to know!
AI
The AI Product Playbook (Book by Dr. Marily Nika & Diego Granados, 2025)
This comprehensive guide, written by AI Product Leads at Google, Dr. Marily Nika, and Diego Granados, bridge AI theory and practical product management, offering actionable frameworks, ethical guidelines, and interactive exercises for AI-driven product managers
Reimagined: Building Products with Generative AI (Shyvee Shi, Caitlin Cai & Yiwen Rong, 2024)
A new book (Kindle-only) packed with 150+ real-world examples, 30+ case studies, and 20+ practical frameworks on weaving generative AI into your product strategy. It shows how and where to incorporate AI in the product lifecycle and your career, emphasising that embracing AI in product management is now “a must” for driving innovation.
Claire Vo, Founder of ChatPRD, shares a tactical look at how product and business leaders are actually using AI today. This series features candid conversations with operators, builders, and founders navigating the messy middle of AI implementation. Topics range from rethinking team workflows and product bets to building with AI under real-world constraints. No fluff — just practical insights on where AI is working (and where it isn’t) inside product orgs. One of the best listens if you're serious about building AI into your product.
Product strategy and vision
Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love (Marty Cagan, 2nd ed. 2018)
A timeless classic on product strategy and innovation. Marty Cagan (of SVPG) draws lessons from top tech companies (Google, Netflix, Amazon) on how to build successful tech products that customers love. It covers core product principles and team processes, making it invaluable for levelling up your strategic thinking. From startups to enterprises, Inspired remains one of the most-recommended books to help product managers create customer-centric product visions.
A fresh release that zeroes in on aligning your strategy with real customer value. It provides essential guidance for product leaders on integrating product strategy seamlessly with user needs. The book addresses the “product momentum gap” – a common pitfall where teams lose focus or sales stagnate due to misaligned strategy. With plenty of actionable steps and examples, this is a practical playbook for ensuring your product strategy drives both business and customer success.
Stakeholder management and leadership
The Influential Product Manager (Ken Sandy, 2020)
A practical guide to excelling at stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership. Sandy emphasises building strong partnerships between product managers and other departments and leveraging continuous feedback to improve product outcomes.
The book is filled with real-world tactics on how to lead by influence (since product managers often have little formal authority) and drive alignment across teams. It’s written in a friendly, approachable style – perfect for learning to communicate vision, manage up, and become an effective organisational leader in your product role.
Product Roadmaps Relaunched (C. Todd Lombardo et al., 2017)
This book is a comprehensive guide on using product roadmaps as a tool for stakeholder alignment and strategic communication. It shows how to set direction while embracing uncertainty and teaches you to build customer-centric roadmaps that clearly convey product value.
It offers techniques for prioritising features, articulating the “why” behind initiatives, and getting buy-in from executives and cross-functional teams. By following its advice, you can use roadmaps to align stakeholder interests and expectations, ensuring everyone from engineering to marketing is on the same page about where the product is headed.
Fearless Change (Mary Lynn Manns & Linda Rising, 2015)
A timeless guide for driving change and influencing teams without formal authority, a challenge that many product people face. The authors share over 40 actionable “change patterns” for winning over stakeholders, reducing resistance, and building momentum for new ideas in organisations.
All Things Product – Podcast by Teresa Torres & Petra Wille
Hosted by product leaders Teresa Torres and Petra Wille, this podcast focuses on how product people and leaders can build outcome-focused, user-driven product organisations. It is great for learning how to foster alignment, run discovery well, and build trust across roles.
Metrics and data-driven decision making
The Insights-Driven Product Manager (Corinna Stukan, 2024)
One of the latest guides to harnessing data and analytics in product decisions. This book helps you cut through data overload and focus on which metrics matter most for your product.
It explains what data to use when making critical product decisions, including which metrics to track and when to rely on qualitative vs. quantitative data. Geared toward modern product managers and product leaders, it’s full of advice on becoming more “insights-driven” in roadmap planning and feature prioritisation. If you want to strengthen your data literacy, this up-to-date resource is a great starting point.
A concise book that reframes how product teams think about metrics. Seiden advocates focusing on outcomes (the customer behaviours and results you want) rather than just outputs (features shipped). He contrasts leading by output vs. leading by outcomes, showing how outcome-focused teams identify specific user behaviours to target and measure. By defining the right behavioural metrics (e.g. retention, engagement) and iterating based on them, teams can reduce wasteful feature output and drive real customer value.
This is an excellent read to ensure you’re measuring what truly matters, and a great companion to his most recent book, Who Does What By How Much? A Practical Guide To Customer-Centric OKRs.
Product launch
Crossing the Chasm (Geoffrey Moore, 3rd ed. 2014)
The “bible” of tech go-to-market strategy, as relevant now as ever. Moore’s classic, updated in its third edition with new cases, explains the technology adoption life cycle and the infamous gap between early adopters and the early majority. It’s packed with insights on how to bridge that “chasm” to reach mainstream customers, with strategies that have stood the test of time. Decades after its first publication, Crossing the Chasm remains a must-read for understanding product launches, market segmentation, and achieving the traction needed for breakout success.
Building Rocketships by Oji and Ezinne Udezue
Building Rocketships: Product Management for High-Growth Companies is an essential guide for anyone seeking to build, scale, and lead transformative products in today’s fast-moving, hyper-competitive tech landscape. Written by veteran product leaders Oji and Ezinne Udezue, who will also be speaking at INDUSTRY 2025, have led teams at industry giants like Microsoft, Twitter, Calendly, and Discovery Communications. The book covers over 45 years of combined experience in a practical, actionable playbook.
Each of these resources will help you explore core areas of product management this summer. Happy learning and product building!
About the author
Louron Pratt
Louron serves as the Editor at Mind the Product, bringing nearly a decade of experience in editorial positions across business and technology publications. For any editorial inquiries, you can connect with him on LinkedIn or Twitter.
