Product Management Resources
The Good Stuff
Books I’ve read:
The Innovator’s Dilemma — Clayton Christensen
This is the book that highlights the challenges on why innovation is hard within a corporation. Not impossible. Just hard.
Spanish version: Dilema De Los Innovadores, El: Cuando las nuevas tecnologías pueden hacer fracasar a las grandes empresas (Futuro)
The Lean Startup — Eric Ries
This particular book and it’s method has sparked lots of discussion. Still after reading this book, how can you with a straight face ask for $1M to test a simple idea?
Spanish version: El método Lean Startup: Cómo crear empresas de éxito utilizando la innovación continua
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future — By Peter Thiel, Blake Masters
If you are building the next Google, Facebook, you’ve already failed. Read this book to understand why.
Spanish version:De cero a uno: Cómo inventar el futuro (MANAGEMENT)
The Mom Test — By Rob Fitzpatrick
Rob does an excellent job of just giving you the stuff you need to understand customer/user pain points. No fluff.
Spanish version: El Mom Test: Cómo mantener conversaciones con tus clientes y validar tu idea de negocio cuando todos te mienten.
Book I want to read:
Obviously Awesome: How to Nail Product Positioning so Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It — April Dunford
So I have an awesome product… but how I get in front of users? This book seems to more focused on tech products that “Positioning ” by Al Ries.
The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback — Dan Olsen
Similar to “Inspired,” I am looking for additional insight into the mythical MVP. :)
User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product — Jeff Patton, Peter Economy
I am hoping this book refreshes my thinking on how user stories should be used and most critically not used.
Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love — Marty Cagan
Just answering this question is useful enough for me: “How do you identify the minimal possible product that will be successful?”
Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology — Gayle Laakmann McDowell
Whilst I am not looking for a job, this book will give me insight into how tech companies view the product management function. Gayle also describes how the product management job.
Twitter for Product Management Aficionados:
John Cutler — I like the beautiful mess of product development. Product Evangelist/Coach
Stratechery — Stratechery provides analysis of the strategy and business side of technology and media, and the impact of technology on society.
Katie Dill — Head of Design @ Stripe. Advisor @ GV. Board Director @ Benetech. Previously Head of Design @ Lyft; Director of Design @ Airbnb. Mom. Wife. Aspiring pilot.
Marty Cagan -I’m a founder and partner at Silicon Valley Product Group, former product leader at eBay, Netscape and HP. Author of INSPIRED and EMPOWERED.
Reforge — The leading career development membership for tech leaders. We provide cohort-based programs across product, growth, engineering, and marketing.
Michael Seibel — Partner at YC and Managing Director of YC Early Stage @ycombinator michael@ycombinator.com
Shreyas Doshi — startup advisor. built products at Stripe, Twitter, Google, Yahoo. tweets about product, strategy, org psych, leadership, life — useful for some, not for everyone
First Round — First round, first hires, first product, first customers — we’ve helped NotionHQ, Roblox, Uber, Square, and 300 others tackle these firsts and more.
Andrew Chen — a16z. author, The Cold Start Problem
Courses that I would consider taking:
Reforge: Product Management Foundation — Reddit Review
General Assembly — Online Product Management Course — Reddit Review
Pragmatic Institute — Foundations — Reddit Review
