Product Resources
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3 min readApr 28, 2020
A list of educational resource curated over the last 10 years of my career in product. I’ve put authors and resources worth following in parentheses where applicable.
Product best practices
- The Golden Circle (Simon Sinek)
- Empowered Product Teams (SVPG / Marty Kagan)
- Good product manager, bad product manager (Andreesen Horowitz)
- Behind the 7 Phases of Product Development
- How Do People Get New Ideas? (Isaac Asimov)
- Building product using data (Sequoia capital)
- Influence Without Authority
- You Are Not the CEO of Anything
- 20 Years of Product Management in 25 Minutes
- The Importance of Being Clear
- How to Start a Speech
- Great Leaders Ask, “What Really Matters?” (Kellogg Research)
Interviewing for PM roles
- How to Crack the Product Manager Interview by Gayle McDowell (Strongly recommend reading her book. Disclaimer, she’s a friend.)
- The History and Evolution of Product Management (Mind the product)
- A Product Manager’s Job
- 6 Product Manager Technical Skills Companies Look For (Hired.com)
- First 90 Days as a New Product Manager by former Flipkart PM (Product School)
- The 30–60–90 Day Plan: Your Guide for Mastering a New Job (Hubspot)
- Onboarding a new Product manager
- Practice questions for PM interviews
Product Execution
- Mud Rooms, Red Letters, and Real Priorities
- The art of building a product roadmap (Atlassian Summit)
- Product Roadmap Process (my favorite resource on this list)
- Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey Moore (Lean Product Meetup)
- How to Build a Product Roadmap by Walmart Senior Product Manager (Product School)
- Lean product development
- The truth behind MVPs (“Minimum Viable Products”) Melissa Perri
- The First Principles of Product Management
Product Strategy
- What’s your problem? How to define a problem statement
- How to Create Your Product Strategy (Dan Olsen)
- How to Become a Strategic Leader (Sloan review)
- Product Strategy Basics (Product School)
Frameworks
- Design thinking (IDEO)
- Agile Manifesto (agilemanifesto.org)
- Kanban explained for beginners
- Jobs to be done (HBR)
- RICE: Simple prioritization for product managers (Intercom blog)
- The Decision Matrix: How to Prioritize What Matters
- Product Thinking (me)
- CIRCLES
- Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell (truly worth watching)
- Giants can dance: Agile organizations in asset-heavy industries (McKinsey)
- Prioritization for dummies
- RASCI matrix (more for project managers but I find this useful in deciding who’s opinion to give a shit about)
Data Analysis and tools
- The 5 Components of a Good Hypothesis
- How to Train Someone to Translate Business Problems into Analytics Questions (HBR)
- 6 Steps for Running an MVP Experiment
- How to analyze survey data
- How to Design and Analyze a Survey
- A/B TestingSignificance Calculator
- Sample Size Calculator
- Churn
- Choosing the right KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)
- Sensitivity and specificity
- 10 Customer Retention Metrics & How to Measure Them (Hubspot)
- How to calculate Confidence Intervals and Margin of Error
- User Experience Research Field Guide
- 5 Competitive Analysis Frameworks Explained with Visuals
- 43 UX research tools for optimizing your product
Software architecture
Design
- The Cognitive Bias Codex
- The Laws of Simplicity
- Gestalt Principles
- Dark Patterns
- How dark patterns trick you online
- A Designer’s Code of Ethics
- Inclusive Design Principles
- Standards for Writing Accessibly
- Atomic Design
- 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design (Neilsen Norman Group)
- Wireframing for dummies
- A Practical Look At Using Wireframes
- Flavors of prototypes (SVPG)
- The value of investing in design systems
- User Experience: This guide is a massive checklist in interface design. Here are 125+ best practices in UX/UI of web design and mobile interfaces.
- An example of excellent UX
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