Resources and references for aspiring product managers

I’m increasingly chatting to potential next-gen product managers asking for more information about product management. My ever-evolving list below covering product, technology strategy, and design.

Twitter

• Shreyas Doshi
• Jake Knapp
• Leading the Product
• Paul Jackson - one of my favourites!
• Product Anonymous
• Mind the Product
• Brainmates
• Neil Kilick - agile practice!
• Teresa Torres - thought leader regarding product discovery!
• Paul Adam, Intercom
• Marty Cagan, SVPG - well regarded and back on twitter lately
• Andrew Chen, Andreessen Horowitz
• Rich Mironov
• Steve Johnson
• Jeff Patton
• Jensen Harris

Medium

• Signal v Noise (Basecamp)
• Startup Grind
• UX Planet
• UX Design
• EightShapes
• Think Growth

Podcasts

• Product Coffee
• The Women in Product Podcast
• HBR IdeaCast
• Techmeme Ride Home
• a16z (Andreessen Horowitz)
• Masters of Scale (hosted by Reid Hoffman)

Books

• INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan - product 101
• EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products by and Chris Jones and Marty Cagan - product leadership
• LOVED: How to Rethink Marketing for Tech Products by Marty Cagan - product marketing
• The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen
• Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas by Jake Knapp
• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
• Value Proposition Design by Alexander Osterwalder
• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
• The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank
• Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
• Good to Great by Jim Collins
• The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen
• Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim]
• Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams by Jeff Gothelf
• Start with Why by Simon Sinek
• Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

I’m personally also on Twitter, LinkedIn, Medium, and Tumblr (still!).