The best Product Managers are Swiss Army knives - well-versed in business strategy, user experience and technical execution. Plus a host of other topics that evolve as quickly as the technology itself.
After nearly a decade building digital products that transform companies, we’ve cultivated a healthy list of books, podcasts, and other learning materials to help you along your way. The content found here has helped our team navigate a variety of challenges - from prioritizing features and conducting sound user research, to communicating effectively with stakeholders. It's mandatory reading for our team.
Explore the resources below. Read, watch, listen. Our hope is that this curated selection of content will help you level up your skills, so that you can build better, smarter, more relevant products.
Books
- Design of Everyday Things - Classic on user-centered design principles
- Essential Scrum - Practical framework for agile product development
- Four Steps to
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The best Product Managers are Swiss Army knives - well-versed in business strategy, user experience and technical execution. Plus a host of other topics that evolve as quickly as the technology itself.
After nearly a decade building digital products that transform companies, we’ve cultivated a healthy list of books, podcasts, and other learning materials to help you along your way. The content found here has helped our team navigate a variety of challenges - from prioritizing features and conducting sound user research, to communicating effectively with stakeholders. It's mandatory reading for our team.
Explore the resources below. Read, watch, listen. Our hope is that this curated selection of content will help you level up your skills, so that you can build better, smarter, more relevant products.
Books
- Design of Everyday Things - Classic on user-centered design principles
- Essential Scrum - Practical framework for agile product development
- Four Steps to the Epiphany - Customer development methodology for product-market fit
- Hard Thing About Hard Things - Real-world lessons in building tech companies
- High Output Management - Andy Grove's principles for managing product teams
- Hooked - Framework for building habit-forming products
- How to Win Friends & Influence People - Essential skills for product leadership
- Innovator's Dilemma - Why great companies fail to innovate effectively
- Innovator's Solution - Strategies for creating disruptive innovations successfully
- Inspired - Practical guide to modern product management practices
- Lean Start Up - Essential methodology for building products under uncertainty
- Positioning - Classic marketing strategy for product differentiation
- Predictably Irrational - Understanding customer psychology and decision-making
- Sprint - Google Ventures' 5-day process for solving product problems
- Super Thinking - Mental models for better product decisions
- Win Without Pitching - Blair Enn’s standard-setting framework for selling your product vision
Websites
- Andreessen Horowitz - VC perspectives on tech trends and product strategy
- Apple Insider - Latest Apple product news and analysis Department of Product - Practical guides for product management careers
- First Round - In-depth articles on product and startup leadership
- Gabriel Weinburg Mental Models - Decision-making frameworks for product leaders
- Hacker News - Tech community discussions on products and engineering
- Ken Norton - Google PM veteran's essays on product leadership. A must read.
- Lenny's Newsletter - Actionable advice from experienced product leaders.
- NYT Tech - Tech industry coverage and product analysis
- Paul Graham Essays - Y Combinator founder's insights on building products. Classic and value-packed.
- Product Hunt - Daily showcase of new products and tools (check out the chrome plugin, too)
- Product Talk - Product discovery and customer-centric development resources
- Steve Blank Toolkit - Customer development and startup methodology resources
- Tiny / Metalab - Product and company leadership insights from Andrew Wilkinson and others
- Techcrunch - Breaking news on products and startups
- The Product Guy - Jeremy Horn’s podcast, community and resources to master product management.
- YC Resources - Y Combinator's startup and product development guides
Video & Podcasts
- A16Z - Andreessen Horowitz's insights on tech and product
- Appleinsider - Deep analysis of Apple's product strategies
- Ctrl-Alt-Delete - Award-winning podcast on work, wellbeing and creativity from host Emma Gannon.
- Emmett Shear - Definitive guide to conducting effective user interviews
- Farmerama - Innovation and product development in agriculture tech
- Freakonomics - Economics principles applied to product decisions
- Giant Ideas - Big-picture thinking for product strategy
- Inc Uncensored - Behind-the-scenes of company building
- Masters of Scale - Reid Hoffman on growing products into companies
- NPR Politics - Policy impacts on product development
- Planet Money - Economics stories relevant to product decisions
- Radiolab - Storytelling and innovation insights
- Talk show with John Gruber - Apple and tech product analysis
- TED Radio Hour - Big ideas in technology and innovation
- Tim Ferris - Interviews with product leaders and entrepreneurs
- This is Product Management - Weekly interviews with product leaders
