Product Management ​

Notes ​

• Toyota's decision-making principle: Instead of depending on hierarchy, the people who are closest to what’s happening make decisions
• The road to hell is paved with special features for special customers.
• Minimalism in product design isn't about minimizing the product. It's about minimizing what's going on in the head of the person using it.
• You never win in product by doing more, you win in product by doing more with less.
• Every product org should have at least one senior+ engineer who isn’t beholden to a roadmap and who just goes around making little quality of life improvements everywhere.

Links ​

• 15 Things You Should Know About Product Managers (2019)
• HN: Product-building articles by PMs at major tech companies (2019)
• Roadmap - Community of Product Managers.
• What seven years at Airbnb taught me about building a company (2019)
• Why “Standups” are Useless and How to Run Great Product Team Meetings (2019)
• Product Therapy
• Becoming a Product designer: requirements
• Fawkes - Fetch, parse, categorize, summarize user reviews.
• Why you should build features users don't ask for (2020)
• The Product Frameworks Behind Superhuman (2020)
• How Tailwind team prioritizes working on issues (2020)
• Product Work Beyond Product-Market Fit (2020)
• High Agency explained (2020)
• Products Are Functions (2018)
• LightCat - Product Management Tool for Data Driven Product Managers.
• 50 Short Product Lessons (2020)
• Product Channel Fit Will Make or Break Your Growth Strategy (2017)
• Jumping into Product Management (2019)
• "Product surface area" problem explained (2020)
• Overcoming impostor syndrome, introducing growth to an org, and how to partner with your Data Scientist (2019)
• Best active technology product managers (2020)
• Five things I believe now about product work (2020)
• Awesome Product Management
• 15 principles for product work (2020)
• Resources for Learning Product Management (2020)
• Cloudflare Product Management Assignment
• Personal knowledge management for product managers
• ProdPad - Product Management Software.
• Zest - Give your users an easy way to leave instant visual feedback.
• Secrets of the best product teams (2020)
• Products should be “slick”, not just viable (2020)
• Productboard - Customer-driven product management tool. (API)
• Understand users, have a strategy, take the time to build an amazing & delightful product VS Just build, ship quick & often, experiment, assess user reactions, learn, repeat (2020)
• Giving design or product feedback advice (2020)
• The Beautiful Mess 2020 - Weekly posts on product management.
• The Product Manager’s Guide to the Strategy (2020)
• Product Notion - Product Management Templates library in Notion.
• Escaping the Roadmap Trap (2021)
• Decisions, Decisions or Why Baskets of Options Dominate (2019)
• Miro's Product Alignment Approach (2021)
• My product is my garden (HN)
• How to Break into Product Management (2019)
• Source of a lot of bad product decisions
• Product Manager's Guide
• The Tools Don't Matter (2021) - Why are product managers so obsessed with tools? (Tweet)
• Product Lessons - Actionable lessons to accelerate your career.
• 1-Pager Product requirements document
• What is the best way to write a PRD?
• Building Products at Airbnb (2021)
• Linear Method - Practices for Building
• A letter to our future Lead Product Manager, Growth
• Why your organization needs product principles
• Ask HN: Good resources to become a better Product Manager? (2021)
• Lenny's Job Board - Job board, specializing in product-building roles. (Tweet)
• What are the most remarkable “small wins” that you’ve seen products ship? (2021)
• A Product Engineer’s Guide to Platform Engineers (2019) (HN)
• Product vs. Project Teams (2021) (Tweet)
• Competitive Analysis For Product Engineers (2021)
• 14 habits of highly effective Product Managers (2021)
• Ask HN: How do you generally build a product? (2021)
• Keylitic - Discover product trends in your industry.
• Compass - Complete toolkit for product managers using Linear.
• Building Products at Stripe (2021) (HN)
• What to product managers do (2021)
• What I think makes a good product manager (2021)
• The Product Folks - Community of Product Managers and enthusiasts.
• Rituals for hypergrowth: An inside look at how YouTube scaled
• Planning & estimating large-scale software projects (2021) (Lobsters)
• Prioritizing everything is prioritizing nothing (2021) (HN)
• What’s something that product managers do that annoys or frustrates you?
• What I've learned transitioning from a founder to product manager (HN)
• We Ship Every Week (2021) (HN)
• Key principles to guide the new product development process (2021)
• Product Design Basics – A toolkit of concepts and frameworks
• What Type of Job is This: My First Year as Chief Product Officer (2021)
• Simple Product Management Tricks (2021) (HN)
• A product management reading list (2021)
• Product Manager Software Stack (2022)
• The hardest thing about engineering is requirements (2022) (HN)
• Strategy is not X (2022) (HN)
• PM interview resources (2022)
• Buzzfeed Product Design Documentation
• Questions to ask for creating 'user stories'
• 10 metrics every PM should know like the back of their hand
• Stripe's model of product-led, developer-centric growth (2022)
• How to reduce stress in a team and increase focus as PM
• 20VC: Why Being First Does Not Matter, What Makes Truly Great Product Marketing Today (2022)