No one asked you to show up.” Every experienced product manager has heard some version of those words at some point in their career. Think about a company. Engineers build the product. Designers make sure it has a great user experience and looks good. Marketing makes sure customers know about the product. Sales get potential customers to open their wallets to buy the product. What more does a company need? What does a product manager do? Based upon Product School’s curriculum, which has helped thousands of students become great product managers, The Product Book answers that question. Filled with practical advice, best practices, and expert tips, this book is here to help you succeed! Product School offers product management classes taught by real-world product managers, working at renowned tech companies like Google, Facebook, Snapchat, Airbnb, LinkedIn, PayPal, Netflix and more. The classes are designed to fit into your work schedule, and the campuses are conveniently located in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York.

About the author

Josh Anon is a product management consultant, a product management instructor at Product School, and a professional photographer. After graduating from Northwestern University with a degree in computer science, he spent the first 10 years of his career at Pixar Animation Studios. There, he worked in a variety of roles. He started in the software-development group, helping to build workflow tools, and moved to the production group, working primarily as a camera and staging artist (cinematographer/layout artist) on various films.