A curated list of awesome resources for product/program managers to learn and grow.
Efficient note-taking with superior organizational capabilities. Integrates easily with team-based workflows, where notes from the same notebook can be shared with many individuals.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Developer | Microsoft |
| Cost | Free |
| Platform | macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, web |
| URL | https://onenote.com |
Note-taking in Markdown format, with tag-based organizational capabilities.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Developer | Shiny Frog |
| Cost | Freemium ($16/yr subscription available) |
| Platform | macOS, iOS |
| URL | https://bear.app/ |
Kanban-style boards to manage work items. Integrates well with teams and other services. Has a rich extensibility platform.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Developer | Atlassian |
| Cost | Freemium ($9.99/mo+ subscriptions available) |
| Platform | macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, web |
| URL | https://trello.com/ |
A tool to quickly manage "to-dos".
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Developer | Microsoft |
| Cost | Free |
| Platform | macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, web |
| URL | https://to-do.microsoft.com/ |
All-in-one workspace for teams and individuals.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Developer | Notion Labs |
| Cost | Freemium ($4/mo/user individual, $8/mo/user teams) |
| Platform | macOS, Windows, iOS, Android, web |
| URL | https://notion.so/ |
Wireframing tool that allows building mocks without a strong focus on details. Extremely useful for situations where you don't want others to over-index on pixels and instead focus on the content.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Developer | Balsamiq Studios, LLC |
| Cost | Paid ($89/person - permanent license) |
| Platform | macOS, Windows, web |
| URL | https://balsamiq.com/ |
Mocking and prototyping made efficient. Offers many downloadable components that can help one create high-fidelity designs for websites, apps and other experiences.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Developer | Bohemian B.V. |
| Cost | Paid ($99/year) |
| Platform | macOS |
| URL | https://www.sketchapp.com/ |
A better way to design. Design, prototype, and collaborate all in the browser—with Figma.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Developer | Figma |
| Cost | Freemium ($0-45/month) |
| Platform | macOS, Windows, web |
| URL | https://www.figma.com |
- Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz
- Guide to Career Planning by Marc Andresssen
- Guide to Personal Productivity by Marc Andresssen
- PM at Microsoft by Steven Sinofsky
- Hiring Your First Product Manager by Steven Sinofsky
- 12 Things about Product-Market Fit by Tren Griffin
- Relentlessly Resourcefull by Paul Graham
- How to Be an Expert in a Changing World by Paul Graham
- The Time Value of Shipping by Brandon Chu
- Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule by Paul Graham
- Deadlines by Brandon Chu
- Ruthless Prioritization by Brandon Chu
- Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You by Mark Suster
- Do Things that Don't Scale by Paul Graham
- Navigating Mid-Success by Sam Altman
- 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 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 Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
- The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank
- The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change) by Clayton M. Christensen
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
- The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback by Dan Olsen
- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
- Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs by John Doerr
- The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition by Don Norman
| Podcast | Hosts | Url |
|---|---|---|
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Reid Hoffman | https://mastersofscale.com/ |
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Multiple | https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-product-podcast/id1219400787?mt=2 |
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Multiple | https://www.gimletmedia.com/startup |
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Guy Raz | https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this |
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Multiple | https://www.gimletmedia.com/the-pitch |
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Multiple | https://rework.fm/ |
- Women in Product (using Facebook)
- Product School (using Slack)
- PMTrack (using Slack)
- The Product Coalition (using Slack)
- Product Collective (using Slack)