These are some of the books, newsletters, courses, and online communities that I highly recommend for current, aspiring, or even experienced PMs and product leaders. These are resources I use myself! If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out - there’s contact info at the bottom of this page.
- Books about product management
- Newsletters about product management
- Courses
- Slacks and other communities
- More resources
Books about product management
These books are roughly in suggested reading order. As an experiment, in addition to links to Amazon and the author’s page, I link out to Lenny Rachitsky’s podcast interviews and book summaries by Evan Samek, if available.
- Inspired, by Marty Cagan (Author | Amazon | Kindle | Interview | Summary)
- Continuous Discovery Habits, by Teresa Torres (Author | Amazon | Kindle | Interview | Summary)
- Escaping the Build Trap, by Melissa Perri (Author | Amazon | Kindle | Interview | Summary)
- Cracking the PM Interview, by Jackie Bavaro (Author | Amazon | Kindle | Interview)
- Product Roadmaps Relaunched, by Bruce McCarthy (Author | Amazon | Kindle)
- Strong Product People, by Petra Wille (Author | Amazon | Kindle | Interview)
- Product Management in Practice, by Matt LeMay (Author | Amazon | Kindle)
- Empowered, by Marty Cagan (Author | Amazon | Kindle | Interview | Summary)
- Cracking the PM Career, by Jackie Bavaro (Author | Amazon | Kindle | Interview)
- User Story Mapping: Discover the Whole Story, Build the Right Product, by Jeff Patton (Author | Amazon | Kindle)
- Principles of Product Management, Peter Yang (Amazon | Kindle Unlimited)
- Product Leadership, by Richard Banfield (Author | Amazon | Kindle)
Newsletters about product management
Not all of these are still current, but all have a great back-catalog of articles.
- https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/ ($150/year, comes with membership in his private Slack)
- https://lane.substack.com/ 🆕
- https://cutlefish.substack.com/
- https://itamargilad.com/
- https://askgib.substack.com/
- https://svpg.com/articles/
- https://adamfishman.substack.com/
- https://ellenchisa.substack.com/
- https://www.productculture.org/archive
- https://productmanagers.substack.com/
- https://newsletter.bringthedonuts.com/
- https://www.reforge.com/newsletter
- https://producthabits.com/blog/
- https://www.makingproductsense.com/
- https://kylepoyar.substack.com/
- https://growth.design/
- https://www.leahtharin.com/
- https://substack.com/@plgrowth
- https://debliu.substack.com/about
- https://www.getrevue.co/profile/simplybastow (no longer available)
Courses
I’m not a courses person so haven’t taken any of these. But they’ve either been recommended by people I know or I know and respect the instructor.
- Product Strategy Workshop (Gibson Biddle, self-paced)
- Reforge (cohort-based courses, part of a membership program)
- Silicon Valley Product Group Workshops (Marty Cagan)
- Product Institute (founded by Melissa Perri)
- Product Talk Academy (founded by Teresa Torres)
- Mind the Product (co-founded by Janna Bastow)
- Passionate Product Leadership (Jeff Patton)
- Product Foundations (Pragmatic Institute)
- Product Management Fundamentals (Lenny Rachitsky, no current cohorts - this is the only program I have personal experience with)
- Digital Product Management: Modern Fundamentals (Coursera x Darden, free)
- Product Management Bootcamp (Co.Lab)
Slacks and other communities
- Lenny Rachitsky’s ($150/year; comes with newsletter subscription)
- Rand’s Leadership Slack: https://randsinrepose.com/welcome-to-rands-leadership-slack/ (free, large, well run, more engineering-focused but plenty of product and other stuff nerds like us love)
The following are fine but either quieter or more full of promotional content than the above two:
- Product Makers (by Product Board): https://www.productboard.com/community/
- Cohort (by Amplitude): https://amplitude.com/community
- Launch Awesome (by Launchnotes): https://www.launchnotes.com/launch-awesome
- MindTheProduct: https://www.mindtheproduct.com/product-management-slack-community/
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More resources
🍩 Ken Norton’s 44 Best Books for Product Managers
⭕ Outsystems resources for product management (Miro board)
Andy Nortrup’s Self Taught Product Manager