Good book for product or feature planning?

[charleshe]

SHORT VERSION:

I’m in a situation where I want to build something like an “app” that seems very useful.

I’m looking for a book, guide or framework that I can use to help me plan out and build features out in an atomic, progressive, logical way.

Does anyone know of anything like this?

LONG VERSION:

I am working on an interesting project but am faced with many design choices and dependencies whose importance I suspect will only appear after significant work. This produces “analysis paralysis” in a principled way.

Also, there’s sort of a “curse of knowledge” here, because I’ve been in many teams building products. Once you’ve been through this a few times, you come to recognize the myths and the emotional aspects that are oddly integral to this human activity, even though the majority of the work and sentiments often turn out to be useless. This makes me distrustful of myself, as you would be distrustful of any leadership (that wants you to work for free).

Breaking out each step of feature and somewhat articulating the dependencies would help me overcome both problems described above.

I’m looking for a framework that would help me do this.

[verdverm]

Sprint and Inspired are good books.

Don't Make Me Think and The Design of Everyday Things are also good additions to the library

[charleshe]

Thanks!