Books

Impact-first
Product Teams

2025

Around the world, product teams are waking up to the same uncomfortable truth: doing things “the right way” doesn’t matter if your team loses its funding or your company goes out of business. I wrote this book to provide clear-eyed and reality-tested guidance for teams looking to do the work that matters most to their particular business. Available in softcover, ebook, and author-read audiobook.

Discounted bulk copies for your team or organization: book@mattlemay.com

Impact-first Product teams is a must-read for product teams navigating today's turbulent business landscape. I love the case studies, the insights, and the focus on actions that can be taken at the team level. But most of all, I love how fun this book was to read. Too many business books are painful to slog through, but Matt's book is as charming as it is useful.”

Christina Wodtke · Author of Radical Focus and The Team that Managed Itself

Product Management in Practice

Second Edition · O’Reilly Media, 2022

Product Management in Practice is a real-world guide to the day-to-day practice of product management. Incorporating stories from working product managers across industries and company sizes, this book focuses on the mission-critical connective skills that all product managers must develop to succeed in their work. Simply put, this is the book I wish somebody had handed me when I started working as a product manager. Available in softcover, ebook and author-read audiobook.

Just get this book, OK? From start to finish it teaches hard-won lessons from the real-world challenges facing product people today, remote or in person. If you make products for a living, the answers you’ve been looking for throughout your career are here waiting for you.”

Scott Berkun · Author of Making Things Happen and The Myths of Innovation

Agile for Everybody

O’Reilly Media, 2018

Agile for Everybody makes the principles and practices of the Agile movement accessible and actionable to everybody in a modern organization, from product managers and engineers to marketers and executives. Including real-world stories from Agile practitioners at companies like IBM, Spotify, and Coca-Cola, Agile for Everybody provides a jargon-free blueprint for how teams and organizations of all types can become faster, more flexible, and more customer-focused. Available in softcover, ebook and audiobook.

The language and spirit of Agile is everywhere in business today. But what does it really mean and how can we act on the insights that turned a way of writing software into a way of getting almost anything done? Matt LeMay makes it clear what Agile is (and what it isn’t) and reminds us what’s truly valuable about the movement. Agile for Everybody lives up to its name.”

Andrew Blau · Managing Director, Strategic Risk, Deloitte