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
These books are roughly in suggested reading order. As an experiment, in addition to links to Amazon and the author’s page, I’m going to 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)
- 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://askgib.substack.com/
- https://svpg.com/articles/
- https://adamfishman.substack.com/
- https://ellenchisa.substack.com/
- https://www.productculture.org/archive
- https://cutlefish.substack.com/
- https://productmanagers.substack.com/
- https://newsletter.bringthedonuts.com/
- https://itamargilad.com/
- https://www.reforge.com/newsletter
- https://producthabits.com/blog/
- https://www.getrevue.co/profile/simplybastow
- https://www.makingproductsense.com/
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
- 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)
😅 I provide coaching and support to founders and solo PMs. You can grab time with me!
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