Notes from the four Silicon Valley Product Group Books
Over the last three months I read all four of the currently published SVPG books They cover a large range of topics in what they call ‘the product operating model’. This model spans high level product strategy, day to day product discovery and fields like product marketing. I recently collated notes across all four books and felt it might be handy for others to get a high level overview of what I found useful.
Broadly speaking these notes align with the books they came from. Given I read them all in fairly quick succession they may be somewhat blurred. If you’re a product manager, product marketer, founder or executive there’s likely something useful in these books. I wouldn’t necessarily say you need to read all four in such a short timespan. If you’re looking for just one to read, I would say Inspired is your best bet.
Inspired covers a broad range of topics and is likely the best overall picture of the SVPG philosophy. The book doesn’t go into low level detail on any of the topics covered but most of the ideas are easy to research independently and well covered elsewhere.
