Collection of Helpful Articles on Product Management

I listed out some of the key resources I found from the web. These resources are created by influential figures in respective fields. I try to list only the top ten resources that are most helpful to ensure that the list does not become a information dump. I got the inspiration to create this list from Sachin Rekhi. I used the Ravi Mehta’s Product Manager Competency framework in organizing the list into sections.

  • Product Management Overview

  • Execution

  • Discovery

  • Design

  • Strategy (Product vision, roadmapping, Business outcome)

  • Leadership (Influencing people, stakeholder management)

  • Growth

  • Career (Interview, navigating a career path)

PM OVERVIEW

  1. Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz

  2. How to Hire a Product Manager by Ken Norton

  3. Let’s talk about Product Management by Josh Elman

EXECUTION

Feature specification, product delivery, product quality, and prioritization.

  1. RICE: Simple prioritization for product managers

  2. Measuring the User Experience on a Large Scale - HEART framework (Google Research)

  3. Change aversion: why users hate what you launched (and what to do about it) by GV Library

  4. How to measure a lovable product by Mike Edmonds

DISCOVERY

Market research, qualitative research, customer insights

  1. The GV research sprint: a 4-day process for answering important startup questions

  2. How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product Market Fit by Rahul Vohra

  3. What I Learned from Developing Branding for Airbnb, Dropbox, and Thumbtack by Julie Supan

DESIGN

  1. 7 Practical Tips for Cheating at Design - Improving your designs with tactics instead of talent.

STRATEGY

  1. All Revenue is Not Created Equal: The Keys to the 10X Revenue Club by Bill Gurley

  2. Product > Strategy > Business Model by Fred Wilson

  3. What is Good Product Strategy? by Melissa Perri

  4. Effective Product Roadmaps by Melissa Perri

GROWTH

  1. How To Become A Customer Acquisition Expert by Brian Balfour

  2. The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup's metrics by Andrew Chen

DATA ANALYTICS

  1. How Not to Run an A/B Test by Evan Miller

CAREER

  1. Bootstrap your PM job search with this guide by Ben Erez (2020)

  2. Product manager interviews by Jackie Bavaro, co-author of Cracking the PM Interview (2013)

  3. What to Do in Your First 30 Days by Ken Norton