A curated collection of product management resources.
Leveraging the product as the primary driver for growth.
- Product-Led Growth (PLG) - Wes Bush, 2024
- Economic downturn is driving companies to embrace PLG - Louron Pratt, Mind the Product, 2023
- Product-Led Growth and UX - Sara Paul, Nielsen Norman Group, 2023
- Leah's Product-led Growth Guide 3.0 - Leah Tharin, 2023
- Deep-Dive: Product Led Growth - Mike Belsito, Product Collective, 2024
Learning from the product management culture and best practices.
- Building Products at Airbnb - Ken Norton, 2021
- Building Products at Stripe - Ken Norton, 2021
- The Product Model at Amazon - Marty Cagan and Richard Russell, 2024
- The Product Model at Spotify - Marty Cagan and Joakim Sundén, 2023
- Inside How Stripe Crafts Quality Products - Peter Yang interviews Katie Dill, 2024
- How LinkedIn became interesting: The inside story - Tomer Cohen 🎙️ Lenny's Podcast, 2024
- How to Take Bigger, Bolder Product Bets — Lessons from Slack’s CPO - First Round, 2024
Developing a compelling product vision and aligning the organization around strategic objectives.
- Strategy Letter V - Joel Spolsky, 2002
- Good Product Strategy, Bad Product Strategy - Shreyas Doshi, 2023
- What Exactly Is a Product Strategy - Roman Pichler, 2023
- Product Strategy Depends on Company Strategy - Rich Mironov, 2024
- How to Define Your Product Strategy - Gibson Biddle, 2019
- Product Strategy Overview - Marty Cagan, 2020
- Why Don’t We Have a Strategy? - John Cutler, 2022
- Things You Should Never Do, Part I - Joel Spolsky, 2000
Achieving professional growth as a product manager.
- Moving Up to Product Director - Rich Mironov, 2024
- Are We Getting Rid of Product Managers? - Melissa Perri, 2023
- It’s Time to Fight for a Dual PM Career Path - Ken Norton, 2021
- How to Write a Product Manager Resume - Clement Kao, Product Manager HQ, 2024
Empowering teams. Driving strategy. Developing team members.
- Decoding Product Leadership - Roman Pichler, 2023
- From Managing Products To Managing Product Managers - Chris Jones, SVPG, 2017
- I Asked What Exactly Do We Mean by “Product Leaders”—Here’s How People Answered - Petra Wille, 2023
- Clarity for Product Leaders - Arne Kittler, 2024
- Product Management: It’s a System for Business Success, not Product Features - Saeed Khan, 2023
- 10 things I learned from Jason Fried about Building Products, Jonathan Courtney, 2018
- What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager 🔒 - Julia Austin, HBR, 2017
- Product Judgment: How some people can repeatedly create product success - Paul Adams, Intercom
- Chapter 7: Product Management - Elad Gil, High Growth Handbook
- Product Management TACTICS Vol. 4 free eBook - Product Collective
Building a continuous discovery mindset to uncover customer needs and solutions that address them.
- Product Discovery Basics: Everything You Need to Know - Teresa Torres, 2021 (updated in 2024)
- Product Discovery - A Practical Guide for Product Teams - Tim Herbig, 2023
- Product Discovery Recipes - Jeff Patton, 2020
- We did all this discovery... now how do we decide? - Ryan Singer, 2024
No longer the next big thing, but an integral part of product development.
- How AI will impact product management 🔒 - Lenny Rachitsky, 2024
- You can learn AI later - Jason Fried, 2023
- AI Integration and Modularization, Ben Thompson, Stratechery, 2024
- AI Features Must Solve Real User Problems - Kate Moran, Nielsen Norman Group, 2024
- Becoming an AI PM - Aman Khan 🎙️ Lenny's Podcast, 2024
- Deep-Dive: AI for Product Managers - Mike Belsito, Product Collective, 2024
Enabling product management.
- Product Ops Overview - Marty Cagan, 2020
- Product Operations: The Fuel for Winning Product Strategies - Melissa Perri, 2019
Bringing software products to the market.
- Product Managers Aren't Responsible for the Delivery of their Products - Jason Knight, 2023
- Discovery – Delivery - Marty Cagan, 2020
- #1 Reason Your Projects Are Late - Mike Cohn, 2024
Work collaboratively to deliver value in continuous steps.
- Avoiding pile-ups - Jason Fried, 2024
- Agile Software Guide - Martin Fowler, 2019
- Are Agile and Scrum Dead? - Mike Cohn, 2024
- Early Pain - Martin Fowler, 2008
- The Tragedy of Craftsmanship - Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob), 2018
- Toward better - Seth Godin, 2024
- Best Books for Product Managers - Ken Norton, 2024
- Top Product Management Books - Pawel Huryn
Defining team boundaries for effective software delivery.
- Three Organizational Design Principles - John Cutler, 2024
- Building a Great Product Management Organization - Melissa Perri, 2024
- The Product Model and Org Design - Marty Cagan, 2024
Strategies and actions to promote the growth of a product.
- How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users - Lenny Rachitsky, 2020
- Do Things That Don’t Scale - Paul Graham, 2013
- Super successful companies - Sam Altman, 2014
- 'Enshittification' Is Officially the Biggest Word of the Year - Slashdot, 2024
Without a market, there is no product.
- The only thing that matters - Marc Andreessen, 2007
- 20 Lessons From 20 Different Paths to Product-Market Fit - First Round, 2024
The product enabling the product.
- What is platform as a product? - Matthew Skelton, 2021
- Platforms as products - Thoughtworks, 2024
- How platform teams get stuff done - Pete Hodgson (martinfowler.com), 2023
- Platform Teams - Gergely Orosz, The Pragmatic Engineer, 2023
- Product Coaching and “Show, Don’t Tell” - Rich Mironov, 2022
PRDs, strategy, discovery, roadmap and many more.
- 30+ Free Product Management Templates - Pawel Huryn, 2023
- My favorite product management templates - Lenny Rachitsky, 2020
One of the most critical tasks for building strong product teams.
- Hiring a Head of Product - Rich Mironov, 2020
- Interviewing your first product manager - Josh Elman, 2022
- How to Hire a Product Manager - Ken Norton, 2005 (updated in 2023)
- Chris Favorite Interview Question - Chris Jones, SVPG, 2018
- On hiring, rehiring, and one question to answer them all - Jason Fried, 2023
- 2000+ PM Interview Questions - Lewis Lin
- Prioritization is a Political Problem as Much as an Analytical Problem - Rich Mironov, 2022
- My Next Word to Retire is 'Prioritization' - Rich Mironov, 2024
- Changing How You Decide Which Problems To Solve - Jon Moore and Marty Cagan, 2022
- 5 Key Factors for Effective Product Backlog Prioritization - Mike Cohn, 2024
- Promise not to promise - Jason Fried, 2023
- The Alternative to Roadmaps - Marty Cagan, 2015
- Where did the term User Experience (UX) come from? - Don Norman, 2023
- Lessons learned from scaling a product team - Paul Adams, Intercom, 2020
- Chapter 5: Organizational structure and hypergrowth - Elad Gil, High Growth Handbook
- Blitzscaling 08: Eric Schmidt on Structuring Teams and Scaling Google - Reid Hoffman
▶️ Stanford University, 2015
- Are You Tracking the Right Metrics? - Ben Yoskovitz, 2023
- AARRR vs RARRA: Pirate Metrics Explained - Ben Crouch, 2020
- The Role of Analytics - Marty Cagan, 2014
- Web Analytics 101: Definitions: Goals, Metrics, KPIs, Dimensions, Targets - Avinash Kaushik, 2010
- Thinking in Metrics - Christina Wodtke, 2024
- Why teams often struggle with OKRs: A conversation with Jeff Gothelf - Louron Pratt, Mind the Product, 2023
- What Makes a Great Product Culture? - Petra Wille, 2024
- Gemini and Google’s Culture - Ben Thompson, Stratechery, 2024
- The Curse of Culture - Ben Thompson, Stratechery, 2016
- Business Cases are Stories about Money - Rich Mironov
▶️ Product@Heart, 2024
How to document software product improvements and fixes.