This is a book worth reading if you know very little about what Product Management is, what good Product Managers look like, and how to work with them.  I can’t think of a senior engineer or manager that wouldn’t benefit from reading this book.

Some notable notes, mostly for my own record:

Here are four “core” areas in which to master as a product manager.

Communication. Strive for clarity over comfort.

Organization. Change the rules, don’t break the rules.

Research. Live in your user’s reality.

Execution. Act in way that demonstrates there is no work beneath and no work above.

Be curious about other functions across the organization, don’t strive to be an expert in them all.

Always consider goals first then practices.

Err on the side of over communication; explain the obvious.

Communicate that meetings are important and not less than important than IC work.

Learn to manage up, have the courage to challenge executives.

Connect user needs and business goals.

Build the skill to talk with users.  This isn’t obvious and requires practice and honing.; Stakeholders are different that users and require a completely different skills set in communicating with them.

Have influence on the road map; be a connective tissue to put together.

A dated consideration:

https://a16z.com/2012/06/15/good-product-managerbad-product-manager/