Resources for Product Managers
I collect good resources related to product management on this page. It gets updated every once in a while.
Articles for getting started
- First-principles of Product Management
- Minimum Viable PM – How much of what to know? (Tech, Business, UX/design)
- Psychology principles that a PM should know
- Writing a Product Requirement Document (PRD)
Tools/websites to try out
- Wireframing, mockups, flow-charts – draw.io, Balsamiq
- For awesome design ideas – Behance, Dribbble, awwwards
- Workflow management – Trello (playing around with the features will give a fair idea about how tasks are managed – this template can be used for managing your personal to-do list)
Books
- Hooked, Nir Eyal – for understanding the underlying principles of successful products
- Inspired, Marty Cagan – for gaining insight on how tech organisations are structured, the different stages of product development, roles of product managers, frameworks for decision-making and evaluation
- Cracking the PM Interview, Gayle Laakmann McDowell, Jackie Bavaro – for preparing for interviews