Curated readings for product managers
Discover a curated collection of articles offering valuable insights and strategies for product managers. Stay informed and elevate your skills
Making of Product Manager
- 10 Traits of Great PMs
- 10 Things a PM Can Do to Earn Trust from Product Teams
- The Top 10 Deliverables of Product Managers
- Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager
- Role Level and Skills Breakdown at Cleo
- The Growing Specialization of Product Management
- How To Navigate Product Management Specializations
- 5 Ways To Boost Your Career Progression In 2023
- Setting Career Goal Statement
- Peter Yang’s 10 rules
- Product Management is about what?
Building Products
- Data-Informed Product Building
- How to Craft a Winning Start-up Product Backlog
- How to Shape Remarkable Products in the Messy Middle of Building Startups
- Guide to Product Planning: Three Feature Buckets
- Rules of Flow for Product Management: an AirBnB Case Study
- Solving Consumer Problems to Create Successful Infrequent Products
Product Teams
Product Design
- Our 6 Must-Reads for Building and Leading a Product Design Team
- The Practicality of Neilson's 10
- How Uber Uses Psychology to Perfect Their Customer Experience
- The 4 Different Types of Product Prototypes
- Dark Design Patterns: Don’t Do Any of This!
- 23 prototyping resources from Figma
Communication
- Mastering Effective Communication as a PM
- Product Management Communication
- Communication Is the Job
- How to Conduct One-on-One Meetings
- How to Tell Good Stories
- What developers wish product managers know
Product Documentation
Product Discovery
- Discovery Walkthrough at Satvic Movement
- Product Alignment Framework, for structured product discovery and retrospectives
- Product Discovery Ideation Session
Customer Interviews
- Customers are not always right
- Customer Interview Questions
- Customer Support as a PM Weapon
- How to Do Customer Interviews
- Asking Better User Interview Questions
AB Testing
- Optimizing Sample Sizes in AB Testing
- How to Calculate AB Test Sample Size
- Sample Size Calculator
- AB Testing Tech Note: Determining Sample Size
- The Surprising Power of Online Experiments
Metrics
- A Leader's Guide to Metrics Reviews
- You Are Reading Retention Wrong
- The Importance of Key Metrics in Building an Enduring Business
- Input-Output Metric Framework for PMs
- Setting OKRs
- Metrics 101: How to Define and Track Metrics
Frameworks
Insights
Competitors
Strategy
- The Product Strategy Stack
- Competitor Research and Strategy
- Pricing Strategy Guide
- Strategy - Frameworks for Product leaders, PMs, and strategy professionals
- How to accelerate growth by focusing on the features you already have
Retention
- Why Retention Is the Silent Killer
- The One Growth Metric that Moves Acquisition, Monetization, and Virality
Net promoter score
Growth
- Growth Engineering Blog
- The Untold History of Facebook's Most Controversial Growth Tool
- Growth Engineering at Netflix
- Growth Loops Are the New Funnels
- The Challenges of Growing Infrequent Products
- The Secret to Running Effective Growth Sprints
- Finding Language/Market Fit
Decision Making
Engagement
Engineering
- Technical Terms and Concepts
- Become a more technical product manager
- The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter: Year 1
- System Design Blueprint: The Ultimate Guide
Artificial intelligence
Opportunity
Product Marketing
Productivity
First Principles
AI
Mental Models
Hiring
Career
- The skill that gets you fired or promoted: managing up
- The Next Next Job, a framework for making big career decisions
- 15 principles for managing up
- Product Career Map
- The Magic Loop - framework for rapid career growth