The Product Management reading playlist
A reading playlist is a lot like a music playlist — a collection of articles you can listen to again and again which, when combined, tell a story.
It’s an easy way to share ideas around a topic.
I’m at a conference this week in New Zealand on sales, marketing and product for founders and figured I’d put together my reading playlist to share what I read about when I’m reading about product.
On getting to product market fit:
Sachin Rekhi on documenting your product/market fit hypothesis as a form of lean business plan; then how to design your customer validation to maximize product/market fit. by Sachin Rekhi
Dan McFunley on building data driven products at Etsy.
To help you get to that hypothesis it helps to get back to first principles with the classic 5 whys.
Sean Ellis’ classic product market fit survey — “How disappointed would you be if this product no longer existed?”.
The devils roadmap for founders and PMs.
Product strategy means saying no, by Des Trayner of Intercom.io (via Rich Chetwynd)
On being a better Product Manager:
Ben Horowitz “Good PM, Bad PM”.
This incredible job description for product managers is a great wrap up of what the perfect “resume” looks like.
Books to read:
On designing a better user experience: “Don’t make me think” by Steve Krug
The proto-Lean Startup bible for customer development: Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Product people to follow:
Tools to use:
Delighted for NPS
Google Docs for roadmapping, surveys, slide ware, everything else.
JIRA and Trello for day to day running of an agile team.
PM-specific tools I have never used: ProdPad.com/Aha.io
Keen to hear from experienced product managers and founders on articles you recommend.
