Great Product Manager Resources, Books, Articles and More
Throughout my professional journey of building products, I’ve come across some incredible books, articles, and people that have shaped who I am today. I’ll continue to update this master list here for you. My hope is that you find it as useful as it has been to me.
Blogs:
Google Ventures: https://www.gv.com/library/
Silicon Valley Product Group: http://www.svpg.com/
Mind The Product: http://www.mindtheproduct.com/
Etsy Blog: https://codeascraft.com/
Andrew Chen: http://andrewchen.co/
Brent Tworetzky: https://medium.com/@tworetzky
PM Insider: https://medium.com/pminsider
Spotify Labs: https://labs.spotify.com
UX Design Weekly: http://uxdesignweekly.com/
Design Better: https://www.designbetter.co/
Product Books:
Great Books:
Inspired: How to Create Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
The Startup Way by Eric Ries
User Story Mapping by Jeff Patton
The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen
Nail It then Scale It by Nathan Furr
Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time by Jeff Sutherland
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just 5 Days by Jake Knapp
The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
Good Books:
The Art of Explanation by Lee LeFever
How Google Works by Eric Schmidt
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek
Power of Customer Misbehavior by Kalle Lyytinen
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug
The Art of Scalability by Martin Abbott
The Signal and The Noise by Nate Silver
Running Lean by Ash Maurya
User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal, David Silverman, Tantum Collins, Chris Fussell
The Rise & Fall of Strategic Planning by Henry Mintzberg
Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug
Radical Focus by Christina Wodtke
Product Strategy for High Technology Companies
Reference Books:
The Product Manager’s Survival Guide by Steven Haines
Essential Scrum: A Practical guide to the Most Popular Agile Process by Kenneth Rubin
General Books:
Activate Your Brain by Scott Halford
Resilience Thinking: Sustaining Ecosystems and People in a Changing World by Brian Walker & Walter Reed
Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions by Phil Rosenzweig
UX Books:
Lean UX by Jeff Gothelf
UX for Lean Startups by Laura Klein
The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
Data/Analytics Books:
Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan
Lean Analytics by Alistair Croll
Videos:
Marty Cagan at Mind The Product 2012
Lean Analytics Presentation by Alistair Croll
Owlet - International Business Model Competition Winners
Web Articles:
Google Ventures Guide to Research
Google Ventures: How to run a Research Sprint
Essential Product Reading List
Envato’s Agile UX Team Example
Intercom’s Job To Be Done Framework
Prototyping/User Research:
Product Trainings:
Luma Institute - Human Centered Design Workshop
Silicon Valley Product Group - Workshops
Product Conferences:
Top Product Management Leaders
http://www.pmyearinreview.com/
Leadership Councils: