Feb 19, 2017
Always Be Learning! Product Edition
So you’re new to Product (or not). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You’re unsure about where to start (or not). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Here’s a working list of resources for growth oriented PMs; packaged as books, articles, tools, podcasts, and events. Opinions & biases are my own.
Books
The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank
The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks Jr
Start With Why by Simon Sinek
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug
The Principals of Product Development Flow by Donald G. Reinertsen
Data Science for Business by Foster Provost and Tom Fawcett
Articles / Blogs
Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz
Product Management is Neither an Art nor a Science by Gannon Hall
10x Not 10% by Ken Norton
Kanban vs Scrum vs Agile by Matthias Marschall
Yes, Virginia, You Can Estimate That by Camille Fournier
Product Prioritization 101 by Martin Eriksson
The PM’s Guide to CD and DevOps by Suzie Prince
Product Manager & UX Designer — What’s the Difference? by Marcin Treder
Everything A PM Needs To Know About Experiments by Simon Cast
Everything A PM Needs To Know About Analytics by Simon Cast
Multivariate Testing 101: A Scientific Method by Paras Chopra
What is an API? In English, Please by Petr Gazarov
Why PMs Should Do All Their Own QA Testing by Vince Law
How Google is Remaking Itself as a “Machine Learning First” Company by Steven Levy
What Every Manager Should Know About Machine Learning by Mike Yeomans
12 Signs You’re Working in a Feature Factory by John Cutler
4 Things I Learned Designing UI for VR at Disney by James Hsu
VR and your Product Development Process by Jason Monberg And Dale Knauss
10 Ways Mobile is Changing the role of PMs by Ashley Sefferman
The MVP is dead. Long live the RAT. By Rik Higham
What is a Technical Product Manager, anyway? by Daniel Elizalde
Tools
A/B Significance Test Calculator on GetDataDriven.com
Periscope, Looker, Apache Hive
A Visual Intro to Machine Learning
Product Management Checklist by Vanessa Colina
Skills
Harvard CS50: Intro to Computer Science on edx
Introduction to Public Speaking on Coursera
Introduction to Machine Learning on Coursera
User Experience Design Course at GA
Intro to SQL: Querying & Managing Data at KhanAcademy
Podcasts & Organizations
Product Hunt Radio on iTunes or Soundcloud
This Is Product Management Podcast
Mind The Product conference in London or SF
Product Manager HQ on Slack
