Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value

by Melissa Perri

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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.

Published:: 2018
Pages:: 200

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In this collection, Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value references 4 other books.

It draws on The Lean Startup, Inspired and Measure What Matters.

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Perri references Ries' Lean Startup build-measure-learn cycle, warning that organisations get trapped in the 'build' phase when they skip the measure and learn steps

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The Lean Startup

by Eric Ries

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The book complements Cagan's Inspired by providing actionable organisational frameworks for implementing Cagan's vision of empowered product teams; where Cagan evangelizes, Perri operationalizes

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Inspired

by Marty Cagan

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Perri discusses OKRs from Doerr's Measure What Matters as a strategy deployment tool, explaining how organisations like Google use objectives and key results to align product work with business outcomes

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Measure What Matters

by John Doerr

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Escaping the Build Trap builds on Olsen's Lean Product Playbook approach to product-market fit, extending it into a broader organisational strategy for continuous value delivery

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The Lean Product Playbook

by Dan Olsen

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The Lean Startup

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Measure What Matters

The Lean Product Playbook

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The Innovator's Dilemma

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The Four Steps to the Epiphany

Crossing the Chasm

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High Output Management

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