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Books like The Lean Product Playbook
The best books like The Lean Product Playbook are The Lean Startup, The Jobs To Be Done Playbook, and Product-Led Growth. The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen is about product management, product-market fit, customer discovery. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- The Lean Startup
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Eric Ries · Business
The Lean Startup is Eric Ries's argument that the biggest cause of startup failure is not building the wrong product — it's spending months or years building something before finding out whether anyone wants it.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - The Jobs To Be Done Playbook
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Jim Kalbach · Business
Jim Kalbach's The Jobs To Be Done Playbook is a practitioner's guide to applying the jobs-to-be-done framework in product development and innovation work.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - Product-Led Growth
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Wes Bush · Business
Product-Led Growth is Wes Bush's guide to a go-to-market strategy in which the product itself is the primary vehicle for customer acquisition, conversion, and expansion — rather than sales and marketing teams that generate leads and hand them to the product.
A kindred business read.
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- The Elements of User Experience
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The Elements of User Experience
Jesse James Garrett · Self-help
The Elements of User Experience is Jesse James Garrett's attempt to give the field of web design a shared vocabulary and a structural framework at a moment — 2002 — when web design was still being understood as a single discipline rather than several interrelated ones.
A kindred business read.
Read the summary → - Continuous Discovery Habits
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Teresa Torres · Business
Continuous Discovery Habits is Teresa Torres's practical guide to making product discovery a sustainable, weekly team practice rather than a periodic research event.
Shares product management and customer discovery with The Lean Product Playbook.
Read the summary → - Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
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Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
Marty Cagan · Business
Inspired is Marty Cagan's guide to how the best technology companies build products that customers actually want.
Shares product management and customer discovery with The Lean Product Playbook.
Read the summary → - Competing Against Luck
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Clayton M. Christensen · Business
Competing Against Luck is Clayton Christensen's most complete development of the Jobs to Be Done framework, which he introduced briefly in The Innovator's Solution.
Both dig into customer discovery.
Read the summary → - Disciplined Entrepreneurship
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Bill Aulet · Business
Bill Aulet's Disciplined Entrepreneurship is a structured walkthrough of 24 steps for building a new venture, developed from MIT's entrepreneurship curriculum and Aulet's own experience as a serial entrepreneur.
Both dig into product-market fit.
Read the summary → - Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products
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Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products
Marty Cagan and Chris Jones · Business
Empowered is Marty Cagan and Chris Jones's guide to what separates product organizations that consistently build products people love from those that operate as feature factories.
Both dig into product management.
Read the summary → - Escaping the Build Trap
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Melissa Perri · Business
Escaping the Build Trap is Melissa Perri's diagnosis of why product organizations ship constantly but rarely deliver real value, and her prescription for how to change that pattern.
Both dig into product management.
Read the summary → - Growth Hacker Marketing
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Ryan Holiday · Business
Growth Hacker Marketing is Ryan Holiday's short, accessible introduction to a marketing philosophy that emerged from Silicon Valley startups in the early 2010s.
Both dig into product-market fit.
Read the summary → - SPIN Selling
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Neil Rackham · Business
SPIN Selling is Neil Rackham's distillation of twelve years of research and over 35,000 sales calls analyzed to determine what separates effective salespeople in complex, high-value B2B transactions from their less successful counterparts.
Both dig into customer discovery.
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Books like The Lean Product Playbook: quick answers
What are the best books like The Lean Product Playbook?
The best books like The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen are The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, The Jobs To Be Done Playbook by Jim Kalbach, Product-Led Growth by Wes Bush, The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett, Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Lean Product Playbook, such as product management, product-market fit, customer discovery.
What should I read after The Lean Product Playbook?
A natural next read after The Lean Product Playbook is The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. A kindred business read. Other strong choices are The Jobs To Be Done Playbook by Jim Kalbach, Product-Led Growth by Wes Bush, The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett.
What books are similar to The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen?
The Lean Product Playbook centers on product management, product-market fit, customer discovery. Books with a similar feel include The Lean Startup by Eric Ries, The Jobs To Be Done Playbook by Jim Kalbach, Product-Led Growth by Wes Bush, The Elements of User Experience by Jesse James Garrett, Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres, Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
