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.

• Transformed, by Marty Cagan (Author | Amazon | Kindle | Interview)
• 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)
• Aligned: Stakeholder Management for Product Leaders, by Bruce McCarthy and Melissa Appel (Author | Amazon | Kindle)
• Product Roadmaps Relaunched, by Bruce McCarthy (Author | Amazon | Kindle)
• Strong Product People, by Petra Wille (Author | Amazon | Kindle | Interview)
• Empowered, by Marty Cagan (Author | Amazon | Kindle | Interview | Summary)
• Inspired, 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)
• Product Management in Practice, by Matt LeMay (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://herzigma.com/posts (yes, this is me, and yes, I’ve started writing)
• https://adamfishman.substack.com/
• https://itamargilad.com/
• https://askgib.substack.com/
• https://svpg.com/articles/
• 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