Product Management Expert
Melissa Perri is an American product management strategist and author of Escaping the Build Trap, a guide to creating genuine customer value through effective product strategy. She is the CEO of Produx Labs and has taught product management at Harvard Business School.
by Melissa Perri
Melissa Perri diagnoses the 'build trap' - the pattern where organisations measure success by shipping features rather than delivering customer and business value - and provides a comprehensive framework for escaping it. The book covers product management strategy from individual contributor skills to organisational transformation, including product vision, strategy deployment, and outcome-focused development. It has become required reading for product leaders seeking to shift their organisations from output-driven to outcome-driven.
The books Melissa Perri references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Eric Ries
Ries argues most startups fail by building products nobody wants. The solution: treat your business as an experiment, measure validated learning, and pivot before you run out of cash.
by Marty Cagan
Cagan argues that the best product teams discover solutions rather than deliver features handed down from above. Empowered teams with real ownership consistently outperform feature-factory organisations.
by John Doerr
Doerr advocates for Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) as the goal-setting system that powered Intel and Google. The method forces alignment, transparency, and measurable ambition across entire organisations.
by Dan Olsen
Olsen provides a repeatable six-step process for achieving product-market fit. The framework helps teams identify underserved needs, define an MVP, and iterate toward a product customers actually want.
Who Melissa draws from, and who draws from Melissa — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.