Strategy & ops
Cagan/SVPG (Inspired/Empowered/Transformed); Biddle (DHM/GEM/GLEe); Janakiraman (Strategy Blocks, Lenny's 2025); Lafley & Martin (Playing to Win); Perri (Escaping the Build Trap, Product Operations w/ Tilles, Product Kata); Cutler (cascade trap, subtractive ops); Meyer & Lehnerd / Robertson & Ulrich / Martin & Ishii / Cameron et al. (product-platform & modularity, MIT Designing Product Families); Eisenmann/Parker/Van Alstyne & Gawer / Rochet & Tirole (multi-sided platforms & price structure); Phaal/Farrukh/Probert (IfM Cambridge roadmapping / T-Plan); Wheelwright & Clark (Aggregate Project Plan, HBR); Christensen/Verlinden/Westerman (integrate-vs-modularize & profit migration); Keeley/Doblin (Ten Types of Innovation); Carr (infrastructural-tech commoditization); Feitzinger & Lee (postponement); Fricke & Schulz / Suh, de Weck & Chang (design for changeability & flexible platforms); Kota/Sethuraman/Miller (Product Line Commonality Index).
Discovery & product sense
Torres (Continuous Discovery Habits, OST); Doshi (LNO, three levels, pre-mortem); Christensen (JTBD, Innovator's Dilemma); Ulwick (ODI); Hauser & Clausing (QFD / House of Quality, HBR).
AI-native PM
Husain & Shankar (hamel.dev evals-faq, Field Guide, Three Gulfs, arXiv:2404.12272); Khan (Arize; Lenny's “Beyond vibe checks”); Nika (MVQ, AIPDL — O'Reilly 2025) & Granados (archetypes, Wiley 2025); IDEO/Tim Brown (D/V/F base).
Positioning, GTM & pricing
Dunford (Obviously Awesome, Sales Pitch); Moore (Crossing the Chasm); Dixon & McKenna (The JOLT Effect); Ramanujam (Monetizing Innovation); Campbell (ProfitWell/Paddle); Van Westendorp (PSM).
Growth, metrics & experimentation
McClure (AARRR); Verna (hybrid-PLG, PQA); Rachitsky (Lenny's); Amplitude (North Star); Google (HEART); Eyal (Hook); Ries (Lean Startup / Build-Measure-Learn); Kohavi/Tang/Xu (Trustworthy Online Controlled Experiments — SRM, Twyman's law, peeking); Raviv (experiment craft); L.E.K. (key value drivers); Meyer/Tertzakian/Utterback (R&D-portfolio meta-metrics, MIT).
AI era, org, career & NPD
the Udezues (Building Rocketships 2025); Evans (Magic Loop); Ng (via Rachitsky); Norton (hiring); Aumayr (Product Management, Springer 2023); Cooper (Stage-Gate/NewProd, JPIM); Skelton & Pais (Team Topologies); Mironov (roadmaps); Klein (pre-mortem); Kano; Reinertsen/SAFe (WSJF); Nadler & Tushman (Congruence Model).