Untrapping Product Teams: Simplify the Complexity of Creating Digital Products, 1st edition

Published by Addison-Wesley Professional (April 29, 2024) © 2024

  • David Pereira
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Title overview

Empower product teams to rock the world by uncovering and overcoming dangerous traps

Untrapping Product Teams guides you to simplify what gets unintentionally complicated and equips you to overcome dangerous traps while steadily driving customer and business value. This isn't just another book about product management. It's a thought-provoking guide filled with simplicity, encouraging you to act today for a better tomorrow.

This book is for anyone facing the challenges of working on or with product teams. It lays out leading best practices, combined with 'secret ingredients' crafted by the author based on years of experience. Learn what makes or breaks product teams so you are ready to do what it takes to thrive with digital products.

  • Learn the differences between coordinative and collaborative workflows
  • Recognise dangerous traps and the strategies to overcome them
  • Explore the product journey: simplify decision-making, apply mindful product discovery, use delivery to accelerate value, and measure results beyond outputs
  • Craft product principles and set solid foundations for product teams
  • Benefit from proven product health checks to uncover where to act today for a better tomorrow

Table of contents

  • Introduction
  • Part I: Facing Dangerous Traps
  • Chapter 1: How Common Ways of Working Trap or Untrap Teams
  • Chapter 2: The Mindset Impacts on Dangerous Traps
  • Chapter 3: What Distracts Teams from Creating Value
  • Part II: Overcoming Dangerous Traps
  • Chapter 4: Using the Right Ingredients for Product Teams
  • Chapter 5: Crafting a Meaningful Product Strategy
  • Chapter 6: Forget What You Know to Get Ready for the Unknown
  • Chapter 7: Embarking on a Journey to Discover What Matters
  • Chapter 8: Enabling Product Delivery Beyond Outputs
  • Chapter 9: Defining and Measuring Actionable Metrics
  • Chapter 10: Getting the Teams Right
  • Chapter 11: Building Solid Relationships
  • Part III: Remaining Untrapped
  • Chapter 12: Establishing Product Principles
  • Chapter 13: Assessing Your Company's Dynamics
  • Chapter 14: Evaluating How Your Product Strategy Implementation Simplifies Decision Making
  • Chapter 15: Understanding How Quickly You Can Drop Bad Ideas
  • Chapter 16: Examining How Fast You Can Drive Business and Customer Value
  • Appendix: Untrapping Lessons

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