The Top 15 Most-Read Books by World-Class Product Managers:

Books for Aspiring Product Managers
1. Product Management For Dummies (Lawley & Schure )
2. Cracking the PM Interview (McDowell & Bavaro)
3. The Product Book (González de Villaumbrosia & Anon)
4. My Product Management Toolkit (Abraham)
5. Product Management in Practice (LeMay)
6. Hired: How to Get a Product Management Job (Product School)
7. Getting Things Done (Allen)

Books for Established Product Managers
1. Product Leadership (Banfield, Eriksson, & Walkingshaw)
2. The Lean Product Playbook (Olsen)
3. Building Products for the Enterprise (Reeves & Gaines)
4. Launch: The Roadmap to PM Success (Product School)
5. Strategize (Pichler)
6. The Product Manager’s Desk Reference (Haines)
7. Ship it: Silicon Valley PMs Reveal All (Product School)
8. Decode and Conquer: Answers to PM Interviews (Lin)

Reference: Product School

Fred McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003) was an American television personality, musician, puppeteer, writer, producer, and Presbyterian minister. He was known as the creator, composer, producer, head writer, showrunner and host of the preschool television series Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (1968–2001). The show featured Rogers’s kind, neighborly persona,[1] which nurtured his connection to the audience.[2] Rogers would end each program by telling his viewers, “You’ve made this day a special day, by just your being you. There’s no person in the whole world like you; and I like you just the way you are.“

If you like to know more about Mr. Fred Rogers, watch the following video:

• https://youtu.be/Upm9LnuCBUM (Lifetime Achievement Award at the 24th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards)
• https://youtu.be/fKy7ljRr0AA (May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications)
• https://youtu.be/3qrFgQZL25I (نسخه فارسی)

Photo from www.wvxu.org

Quote:
“You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.” Fred Rogers.

There are 4 types of wealth:
1. Financial wealth [money]
2. Social wealth [status]
3. Time wealth [freedom]
4. Physical wealth [health]

Be wary of jobs that lure you in with 1 and 2, but rob you of 3 and 4.
Roche Mamabolo‏ (@rochemamabolo )

The paper “Escaping Method Prison” by Ivar Jacobson was honored in “The best agile paper 2018”. (this),

Key Takeaways

• An understanding of the concept method prison with its side effects gurus, method wars and the zig-zag path, and why it is “the most foolish thing in the world”.
• Escaping method prisons by adopting the Essence standard and getting a common ground on top of which to deal with your methods.
• The team gets a) practices easier to teach/learn/change/compare, b) practices easy to apply giving guidance in daily work and stimulating teamwork, and c) a practice library, from which practices can be selected and composed to entire methods.
• The executives get a) the organization to move from essentially being a craft to essentially being an engineering discipline, b) a forever learning organization with a practice library that continuously is improved as teams learn more and more, and c) a tool to measure progress and health for existing projects independent on which method is being used.
• The industry gets industrial scale agile – from craft to engineering.

چقدر خوشبختم که از طرف یک مرد بزرگ، فرهیخته، تاثیرگذار و بی‌ادعا و یک معلم اخلاق به یک جشن دعوت شدم: جشن چهل سالگی انجمن انفورماتیک ایران.
جای همه‌ی شما واقعا خالی بود.
در این جشن پرصفا، با نسلی آشناتر شدم که بعید می‌دانم در تاریخ ایران، بار دیگر تکرار شوند.
برای انجمن انفورماتیک ایران و به ویژه استاد ارجمند، استاد ابراهیم نقیب‌زاده مشایخ، آرزوی موفقیت و بهروزی بیش از پیش دارم.
سپاسگزارم استاد

موضوع زیر را برای ارائه در یکی از کنفرانس‌های معتبر داخلی در زمینه‌ی مدیریت پروژه انتخاب کردم. خوشحال می‌شوم که نظر شما خوانندگان عزیز را داشته باشم تا محتوای ارائه را بازطراحی و بازنویسی نمایم.
پیشاپیش سپاسگزارم.

عنوان کارگاه: بحران چابکی (Agile Crisis)
خلاصه موضوع:
در چند سال گذشته، به‌کارگیری مفاهیم، ابزارها و روش‌های چابک در مدیریت پروژه‌ها به ویژه پروژه‌های توسعه‌ی نرم‌افزار و محصولات نرم‌افزاری با رشد فزاینده‌ای همراه بوده است. به صورت معمول، چنین رشد سریعی و فشار اجرایی پروژه‌ها باعث می‌گردد که شرکت‌ها و تیم‌ها روی یادگیری و جااندازی مفاهیم بنیادی و زیربنایی چابکی سرمایه‌گذاری کافی و شایسته‌ای نداشته باشند و به سمت به‌کارگیری ابزارها و متدهای اجرایی، آن هم در کوتاه‌ترین زمان ممکن، سوق داده شوند.
اجرایی شدن متدها و ابزارهای چابک بدون تغییر رهیافت (Paradigm Shift) و پذیرش نگرش چابکی (Agile Mindset)، ثمره‌ای نخواهد داشت جز ایجاد بحران‌های نو و بازآفرینی مشکلات قدیمی و رایج در تیم‌ها و شرکت‌ها با ظاهری مدرن.
این کارگاه به دنبال بازخوانی برخی از بحران‌ها و مشکلات شرکت‌ها و تیم‌های نرم‌افزاری است که در پی به‌کارگیری متدهای چابکی ایجاد شده‌‌اند. هم‌چنین ارائه راهکارهایی برای این بحران‌ها مبتنی بر نگرش و رهیافت چابکی بخش دیگری از این کارگاه خواهد بود.

Originally, agile meant valuing individuals and interactions, working software, customer collaboration, and responding to change. Agile was about cross-functional teams working closely together to innovate new products or solutions that couldn’t have been developed any other way.

These days agile seems to be about

• improving productivity,
• reducing work in process,
• Increasing velocity in any way possible,
• holding teams accountable for finishing everything they say they will, and,
• doing just enough that an organization can call itself agile without really being agile.

Many of these are good things. But they are the candy manufacturer version of agile: sweeter and easier to sell.

But, ultimately, these are as unrelated to the original meaning of agile ….

As you work to transform your organization or team with agile, be sure you remain true its principles. That’s the surest way to succeed with agile,

Mike Cohn
1 Nov 2018