Resources for a Product Manager
1 min readAug 18, 2015
A friend of mine recently asked for a list of books, articles, podcasts, etc that I lean on as a Product Manager. This is by no means exhaustive; there are a lot of really great resources out there and more are added each day. Here’s a short list of resources I’ve learned from and continue to learn from as a Product Manager.
Podcasts
- This is product management
- The Growth Show
- Product People
- Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders
- The Startup Chat
Books
- Hooked by: Nir Eyal
- The hard thing about hard things by: Ben Horowitz
- Joel on Software by: Joel Spolsky
- How we got to now by: Steven Johnson
- Lean UX by: Jeff Gothelf
- The Design of Everyday Things by: Don Norman
- Rocket Surgery Made Easy by: Steve Krug
- Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore
Articles
- Get one thing right
- Software Inventory
- How to work with software engineers
- How to hire a product manager
- Leading cross-functional teams
- Maker’s Schedule/Manager’s Schedule
- Do things that don’t scale
- Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager
- Product Strategy means saying no
- What does feature creep look like?
- Product Strategy in 7 minutes
- Product Manager HQ
- Two Product Principles Often Forgotten
- Literally anything from SVPG
