CANON
“….smart-creative product managers need to find the technical insights that make products better. These derive from knowing how people use the products (and how those patterns will change as technology progresses), from understanding and analyzing data, and from looking at technology trends and anticipating how they will affect their industry.”
Classics – Product Management Classics
PM Skills – Commonly desired skills for Product Managers
Useful mental models – Sense of things and generate ideas
Arguing from First Principles — “A first principle is a basic, foundational, self-evident proposition or assumption that cannot be deduced from any other proposition or assumption.”
Classics
The opposite of hapless -relentlessly resourceful – pgraham
The only thing that matters (the market, the market, the market and the team and the product)- pmarca
PRODUCT THINKING
Product management mental models – Brandon Chu
First Principles of Product Management – Brandon Chu
Product market fit – Tren Griffin
Design thinking process :
- How would you design an interface for a 1000 floor elevator? : link
Building great culture as a PM :
Execution and Priortisation :
- The time value of shipping by Brandon chu : https://lnkd.in/dvHVpG7D
- Deadlines by Brandon chu : https://lnkd.in/dNS7ApXh
Defensible growth :
- Do things that dont scale by Paul Graham : https://lnkd.in/dnmJ285n
2.What we look in founders by Paul Graham : https://lnkd.in/dHE45YSq
- Why paid marketing sucks, Network effects, Viral Growth, and more : https://lnkd.in/d6pe8mYv
Product leadership :
- Why leaders eat last by Simon sinek : https://lnkd.in/dHBmikuX
- Navigation success for your startup by Sam altman : https://lnkd.in/dSur_KYX
Miscellenous :
- Titktok and the sorting hat : https://lnkd.in/dcRNTu8D
- Seeing like an algorithm : https://lnkd.in/dEe8Xtg6
- Shein the tiktok of commerce: https://lnkd.in/dzhRe_fN
USER PSYCHOLOGY
User experience research – brief 5 min intro
USER RESEARCH & DISCOVERY
LEADERSHIP & ORGANIZATIONS
First 30 days as PM – Ken Norton
HIRING & BUILDING TEAMS
Vetting and hiring the best product managers – by Todd Jackson
How to hire Product Managers – Ken Norton and Others
MEASURING
QUICK LINKS
Pocket Collections – Product management ,
PRODUCT MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORKS
What is an OKR? Please define it for me.
RICE: Simple prioritization for product managers
Growth Loops are the New Funnels — Reforge
What is Jobs to be Done (JTBD)?
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How To Get The Most Out Of Customer Interviews
Medium – Get smarter about what matters to you.
Crossing the Canyon: Product Manager to Product Leader
How To Become a Peak Product Manager
PRODUCT CANON
why figma wins product and cloud strategy
How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy
FUTURE THINKING
This is a compelling story about a model that seems to reflect what actually happens.
STRATEGY & PRODUCT
Distribution – Channel as a function of product and target audience
How to miss by a mile and Uber valuation, TAM
Business of AI vs traditional software
A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from John Malone
lots of things happening at once
Product Work Beyond Product-Market Fit — Reforge
a16z Podcast: Building Products for Power Users
The Ultimate Guide to SaaS Product Management
PRODUCT DESIGN
ENGINEERING
Making netflix data cost effective
Ecosystems as major drivers of software development
PRODUCT ANALYTICS
Mix panel guide to product analytics
QUOTES
Making netflix data cost effective