I'm looking to get some fresh ideas to improve our product lifecycle.<p>A quick Amazon search turns up a lots of stuff, but I'm not sure which books are for us - in particular, even if the book is very good I am not sure if it is targeted towards say enterprise vs. an small, everyone-wears-multiple-hats agile team.<p>With software development you've got "must reads" like Code Complete that basically are relevant to any programmer regardless of environment, so I wonder if there's analogous tomes for product?
You should check out Inspired - How to create products customer love by Marty Cagan. I found it extremely concise and useful.<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Inspired-Create-Products-Customers-Love/dp/0981690408/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1294301344&sr=8-1" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Inspired-Create-Products-Customers-Lov...</a>
I think the book Managing Humans is a wonderful book on management.<p><a href="http://www.managinghumans.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.managinghumans.com/</a>
<i>Augustine's Laws</i><p>Like the mythical man month, only not mythical.<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Augustines-Chairman-Lockheed-Corporation-Augustine/dp/1563472406" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Augustines-Chairman-Lockheed-Corporati...</a>
A classic book is "The mythical man of the month", It was published in 1975, but its worth reading.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month</a>