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Awesome Product Management

🚀 A curated list of awesome resources for product/program managers to learn and grow.

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Articles >Product Fundamentals & Philosophy

How to build great products

By Slava Akhmechet.

If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good

By Paul Bucheit.

Finding and Fostering Great Product Sense

By Stay SaaSy.

Want To Build An Incredible Product? Strive For The Delta Of "Wow"

By Wayne Chang.

Quality is not a tradeoff

By Julie Zhuo.

The Black Box of Product Management

By Brandon Chu.

Product Management Mental Models for Everyone

By Brandon Chu.

Great Product Managers are "Outcome Thinkers"

By Max Bennett.

Do you really understand the concept of product value?

by Hubert Palan.

My product is my garden

By Herman Martinus.

Solution-space taste

By Grant Slatton.

The Tools Don't Matter

By Ken Norton.

Building a Great Product Management Organization

By Melissa Perri.

Relentlessly Resourceful

By Paul Graham.

How to Be an Expert in a Changing World

By Paul Graham.

Hackers and Painters

By Paul Graham.

The Product Manager

By Paul Graham.

Articles >Product Development & Process

How to Deliver More Software Projects on Time

By Mark Suster.

Shipping is a Feature: Some Guiding Principles for People That Build Things

By Michael Copeland.

The Time Value of Shipping

By Brandon Chu.

A Minimum Viable Product Is Not a Product, It's a Process

By Jim Brikman.

Painless Functional Specifications – Part 1: Why Bother?

By Joel Spolsky.

Painless Functional Specifications – Part 2: What's a Spec?

By Joel Spolsky.

Painless Functional Specifications – Part 3: But… How?

By Joel Spolsky.

Painless Functional Specifications – Part 4: Tips

By Joel Spolsky.

One door at a time

By Jason Fried.

Do Things that Don't Scale

By Paul Graham.

In 2 lists

Speed as a habit

By Dave Girouard.

A Comprehensive Guide To Product Design

By Nick Babich.

Don't Give Your Users Shit Work

By Zach Holman.

Don't start a tech-enabled service

By Waseem Daher.

Articles >Product Strategy & Planning

12 Things about Product-Market Fit

By Tren Griffin.

Understanding How The Innovator's Dilemma Affects You

By Mark Suster.

OKRs and Product Roadmaps

By Roman Pichler.

Product OKRs: Driving Outcomes Over Outputs

By Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia.

Deadlines

By Brandon Chu.

Ruthless Prioritization

By Brandon Chu.

How to focus on what's important, not just what's urgent

By Alice Boyes.

Mud Rooms, Red Letters, and Real Priorities

By Merlin Mann.

Good strategy understands affect, not just cognition

By Vaughn Tan.

Seven strategy tensions … and misunderstandings

By Vaughn Tan.

Is or Is Not The Opposite Stupid on its Face?

By Roger Martin.

Virtuous Cycles, Platforms, Flywheels, Snowballs, and Tidal Waves

By Charlie Kindel.

Is your company product-led, sales-led, or marketing-led?

By Philipp Cannons.

On narratives

By Charlie Kindel.

Navigating Mid-Success

By Sam Altman.

Startup Exercise: What can't be solved with money?

By Jason Cohen.

Product Purgatory: When they love it but still don't buy

By Jason Cohen.

Product Discovery Basics

By Teresa Torres.

Remote Product Management Tips

By Atlassian.

How to Craft Your Product Management Team Structure at Every Stage

By Nikhyl Singhal.

Articles >Customer Research & User Experience

How to Listen to Customers

By Ken Norton.

The Product Manager's Guide to UX Research

By Katryna Balboni.

Effective User Interviews

By Product HQ.

Story-Based Customer Interviews

By Teresa Torres.

Product Management Skills: User Research

By Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia.

The Quintessential Guide For Building An Unforgettable First-time User Experience

By Wayne Chang.

User Onboarding Examples: Analyzing 6 Real-Life Onboarding Flows

By Shanelle Mullin.

Inside the 6 Hypotheses that Doubled Patreon's Activation Success

By Brian Balfour.

How to Use the Google HEART Framework to Measure and Improve Your App's UX

By Emily Bonnie.

Articles >Team Collaboration & Leadership

How to Work with Designers

By Julie Zhuo.

How to Work With Software Engineers

By Ken Norton.

The Product-Minded Software Engineer

By Gergely Orosz.

Being Glue

By Tanya Reilly.

The work is never just "the work"

By Dave Stewart.

You Won't Regret Positive Feedback

By Zach Holman.

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule

By Paul Graham.

In 3 lists

The Art of Persuasion Hasn't Changed in 2,000 Years

By Carmine Gallo.

Mastering Effective Communication as a Product Manager

By Sachin Rekhi.

The Top 10 Deliverables of Product Managers

By Sachin Rekhi.

In 2 lists

Coaching Tools – The Plan

By Marty Cagan.

Remote teams

By Notion Team.

The Dos and Don'ts of Mentoring in Product

By Eira Hayward.

Rickover's Lessons

By Lily Ottinger and Charles Yang.

What is Good Product Strategy?

By Melissa Perri.

Fell in a hole, got out

By Tony Stubblebine.

Articles >Product Metrics & Analytics

How to Calculate Customer Lifetime Value

By Clint Fontanella.

Analytics should be an Assembly Line

By Taylor A. Murphy.

SSEBITDA—A steady-state profit metric for SaaS companies

By Jason Cohen.

In-depth: The AARRR pirate funnel explained

By PostHog.

Articles >Career Development & Skills

How Am I Going To Move My Product Forward Today?

By Sachin Rekhi.

PM at Microsoft

By Steven Sinofsky.

Hiring Your First Product Manager

By Steven Sinofsky.

Relentlessly Resourceful

By Paul Graham.

How to Be an Expert in a Changing World

By Paul Graham.

The dark side of expertise

By Jake Edge.

So You Wanted to be a Product Manager

By Scott C. Reynolds.

Breaking into Product Management — Should you even consider it?

By Shubhi Saxena.

Is It Possible to Work Remotely as a Product Manager?

By Roy Cobby.

It's Time to Fight for a Dual Product Management Career Path

By Ken Norton.

Great PM Interview Answers Include Tradeoffs. Here's How.

By Sushanth Raman.

A Pyramid-shaped Career

By Jack Danger.

Career advice in 2025

By Will Larson.

How to be more agentic

By Cate Hall.

On agency

By Henrik Karlsson and Johanna Karlsson.

Articles >Growth & Marketing

How We Got Our First 2,000 Users Doing Things That Don't Scale

By Ryan Hoover.

In 2 lists

How To Get Media Coverage for Your Brand

By Michael Keenan.

In 2 lists

Guy Kawasaki, proto-evangelist

By Dave Winer.

The Art of Evangelism

By Guy Kawasaki.

Books >Product Management Fundamentals

Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

By Marty Cagan.

EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products

By Marty Cagan, Chris Jones.

Transformed: Moving to the Product Operating Model

By Marty Cagan.

Escaping The Build Trap

By Melissa Perri.

Product Operations: How successful companies build better products at scale

By Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles.

Intercom on Product Management

Building Products for the Enterprise

By Blair Reeves and Benjamin Gaines.

The Product Book

By Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia and Josh Anon.

Decode and Conquer

By Lewis C. Lin.

Books >Product Strategy & Planning

Good Strategy, Bad Strategy

By Richard Rumelt.

The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses

By Eric Ries.

The Four Steps to the Epiphany

By Steve Blank.

The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-By-Step Guide for Building a Great Company

By Steve Blank and Bob Dorf.

Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers

By Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur.

Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want (Strategyzer)

By Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur.

The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)

By Clayton M. Christensen.

Crossing The Chasm

By Geoffrey A. Moore.

Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs

By John Doerr.

Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

By Al Ries and Jack Trout.

Books >Customer Research & User Experience

Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value

By Teresa Torres.

The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you

By Rob Fitzpatrick.

The Customer-Driven Playbook

By Jessica Rich and Travis Lowdermilk.

Evidence-Guided: Creating High Impact Products in the Face of Uncertainty

By Itamar Gilad.

The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

By Don Norman.

Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research

By Mike Kuniavsky.

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

By Steve Krug.

Books >Product Development & Process

The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback

By Dan Olsen.

Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days

By Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz.

Shape Up

By Ryan Singer.

In 2 lists

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

By Nir Eyal.

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

By Tony Fadell.

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering

By Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

Thinking in Systems: A Primer

By Donella H. Meadows.

Books >Team Leadership & Management

The Manager's Path

By Camille Fournier.

Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity

By Kim Scott.

An Elegant Puzzle

By Will Larson.

In 2 lists

Staff Engineer

By Will Larson.

In 2 lists

Difficult Conversations

By Douglas Stone.

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

By Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace.

Books >Psychology & Behavioral Change

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

By Chip Heath and Dan Heath.

Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

By Chip Heath and Dan Heath.

The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business

By Charles Duhigg.

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

By Robert B. Cialdini.

Books >Engineering & Technical

Creative Selection

By Ken Kocienda.

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn

By Richard W. Hamming.

High Output Management

By Andrew S. Grove.

7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

By Hamilton Helmer.

Communities

Women in Product

(using Facebook)

Product School

(using Slack)

The Product Coalition

(using Slack)

Product Collective

(using Slack)

Conferences

Industry

Over 3 days, attendees will learn from renowned product leaders and share the latest methods, tools, and frameworks that they use to build, launch and scale world-class software products. Building world-class software products is hard. At INDUSTRY you will see how others manage product in…

ProductCon

Organized by Product School, ProductCon takes place five times a year with events in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle and London. The speaker lineup features product leaders from Google, Slack, Amazon, Airbnb, Netflix, Facebook and more. You’ll learn best practices behind the most…

La Product Conf

Organized by Thiga, La Product Conf (LPC) takes place once a year with events in Paris (France) and Madrid (Spain). The speaker lineup features product leaders from Pinterest, Carrefour, Payfit, Google, Meetic and more.

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Product and strategy insights from the industry.

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Hand-picked collection of mobile app design patterns.

In 2 lists

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