A curated list of awesome resources for product/program managers to learn and grow.

By definition, a product manager is an individual who drives the product vision and has a deep understanding of customer needs. PMs generally are considered to be at the intersection of the business, technology and and design spaces - they are the experts in the problem space, and are able to learn and iterate quickly to deliver valuable experiences to consumers.

• Tools
  • OneNote
  • Bear
  • Trello
  • To-Do
  • Notion
  • Balsamiq
  • Sketch
  • Figma
  • Taskade
• Articles
• Books
• Podcasts
• Communities
• Conferences

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.

Note-taking in Markdown format, with tag-based organizational capabilities.

Kanban-style boards to manage work items. Integrates well with teams and other services. Has a rich extensibility platform.

A tool to quickly manage "to-dos".

All-in-one workspace for teams and individuals.

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.

Mocking and prototyping made efficient. Offers many downloadable components that can help one create high-fidelity designs for websites, apps and other experiences.

A better way to design. Design, prototype, and collaborate all in the browser—with Figma.

Get work done with collaborative task lists, notes and video chat. Taskade is beautifully designed for remote teams.

• Want To Build An Incredible Product? Strive For The Delta Of “Wow” - By Wayne Chang.
• The Quintessential Guide For Building An Unforgettable First-time User Experience - By Wayne Chang.
• One door at a time - By Jason Fried.
• 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.
• How to focus on what's important, not just what's urgent - By Alice Boyes.
• Speed as a habit - By Dave Girouard.
• A Comprehensive Guide To Product Design - By Nick Babich.

• 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
	Reid Hoffman	https://mastersofscale.com/
	Multiple	https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-product-podcast/id1219400787?mt=2
	Multiple	https://www.gimletmedia.com/startup
	Guy Raz	https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510313/how-i-built-this
	Multiple	https://www.gimletmedia.com/the-pitch
	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)

• Industry
• ProductCon

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