There are countless Product Development courses, tutorials, articles available online, but for some, having a book is still a necessity to learn. This is an up-to-date list of recommended books.
- Swipe to Unlock: The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy (2017)
- Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty (2017)
- Product Design And Development, 5 Ed (2017)
- Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (Strategyzer) (2014)
- Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge: A Guidebook for Training and Certification (2017)
- Invitation to the Life Span (2013)
- Loose Leaf for Product Design and Development (2019)
- Beyond Design: The Synergy of Apparel Product Development (2012)
- Fundamentals of Product Development: Creating Desirable and Transferable Designs (2017)
- Flexible Product Development: Agile Hardware Development to Liberate Innovation (2018)
- Revolutionizing Product Development: Quantum Leaps in Speed, Efficiency and Quality (2011)
- Essentials of Educational Psychology: Big Ideas to Guide Effective Teaching (3rd Edition) (2011)
- New Product Development For Dummies (2007)
- Research Methods for Product Design (Portfolio Skills Product Design) (2013)
Swipe to Unlock: The Primer on Technology and Business Strategy (2017)
Swipe to Unlock is a comprehensive guide on the must-know concepts of technology and business strategy. ***Swipe to Unlock was updated in 2019 to to cover the latest developments in the world of tech.*** This from the and has been featured in , , and Swipe to Unlock was touted as by Jeremy Schifeling.
Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty (2017)
A good product roadmap is one of the most important and influential documents an organization can develop, publish, and continuously update. In fact, this one document can steer an entire organization when it comes to delivering on company strategy.This practical guide teaches you how to create an effective product roadmap, and demonstrates how to use the roadmap to align stakeholders and prioritize ideas and requests.
Product Design And Development, 5 Ed (2017)
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Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (Strategyzer) (2014)
Value Proposition Design helps you tackle the core challenge of every business — creating compelling products and services customers want to buy.
Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge: A Guidebook for Training and Certification (2017)
This book is designed to provide the body of knowledge (BoK) required by candidates studying for PDMA’s New Product Development Professional certification examination. The guide is divided into seven chapters, consistent with the seven topics used as a basis for the NPDP examination. These are: 1. Strategy 2. Portfolio management 3. New products process 4. Culture, organization, and teams 5.
Invitation to the Life Span (2013)
Edition after edition, Kathleen Stassen Berger’s bestselling textbooks connect all kinds of students to current state of developmental psychology, in an engaging, accessible, culturally inclusive way.
Loose Leaf for Product Design and Development (2019)
Pioneers in the field, Cateora, Gilly, and Graham continue to set the standard in this 18th edition of International Marketing with their well-rounded perspective of international markets that encompass history, geography, language, and religion as well as economics, which helps students see the cultural and environmental uniqueness of…
Beyond Design: The Synergy of Apparel Product Development (2012)
This practical text takes students step-by-step through the pre-production processes of apparel product development: planning, forecasting, fabricating, line development, technical design, pricing, and sourcing. It demonstrates how these processes must be coordinated to get the right product to market, when consumers want it, and at a price they are willing to pay.
Fundamentals of Product Development: Creating Desirable and Transferable Designs (2017)
Great products come from great designers using great development processes. But how does a novice designer become a great designer? And how does an ordinary development process become a great development process? Fundamentals of Product Development explores the evolution of products from the beginning idea through mass-production.
Flexible Product Development: Agile Hardware Development to Liberate Innovation (2018)
CHANGE presents a dilemma to product developers. It is the essence of innovation, for which developers strive. As they work every day, product developers discover improvements (innovation), but to incorporate these improvements, plans have to change. Unfortunately, seasoned developers have learned that midproject change has a high price: schedule overruns, blown budgets, rework, and quality problems.
Revolutionizing Product Development: Quantum Leaps in Speed, Efficiency and Quality (2011)
Today, a company’s capability to conceive and design quality prototypes and bring a variety of superior products to market quicker than its competitors is increasingly the focal point of competition, contend leading product development experts Steven Wheelwright and Kim Clark.
Essentials of Educational Psychology: Big Ideas to Guide Effective Teaching (3rd Edition) (2011)
Unlike most educational psychology books, which take one theory at a time, explain its assumptions and principles and then identify implications for educational practice, Essentials of Educational Psychology focuses more on the commonalities than the differences among theories, because although researchers from different traditions have approached human cognition and behavior from many different angles, they…
New Product Development For Dummies (2007)
The global consumer product market is exploding. In 2006 alone, 150,000 new products were brought to market. Now for the bad news: of those, fewer than 5% were hits, and fewer than 15% will even exist five years from now.
Research Methods for Product Design (Portfolio Skills Product Design) (2013)
This book provides the reader with a comprehensive, relevant, and visually rich insight into the world of research methods specifically aimed at product designers.
Best Product Development Books to Read
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Nuclear Production of Hydrogen.
Author(s): OECD
ID: 2148299, Publisher: Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, Year: May 2004, Size: 9 Mb, Format: pdf
Uranium Resources, Production and Demand, 1999 (2000 Edition).
Author(s): OECD
ID: 2148250, Publisher: Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, Year: July 2000, Size: 2 Mb, Format: pdf
Measuring Productivity - OECD Manual : Measurement of Aggregate and Industry-Level Productivity Growth.
Author(s): OECD
ID: 2148891, Publisher: Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development, Year: Aug. 2001, Size: 993 Kb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not final. Some books are truly best-sellers according to Washington Post, others are written by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant books you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.