A list of helpful Product Management lists 📝

A list of Product Management resource lists

Product Managers tend to be very interested in continuous education. That’s a good thing given how the role continues to evolve. The question then becomes where should you look for resources to continue your learning? You already know that you can count on Product Collective to provide you with helpful resources. We thought it’d be helpful to point you to lists that other product managers have compiled of the resources they found helpful.

Damilola’s top 5 product management resources of 2021. Damilola Ajiboye put together this rundown of the resources that he found most resourceful in his product management journey this year. They cover subjects around product management, growth strategy, building and scaling a startup, fundraising, and everything technology. 
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Product management resources. Victoria Bertasoli had a lot of friends asking her to send them recommendations on product management content in the past months so she decided to structure it in one blog post. She organized the resources into different formats (ie books, podcasts, twitter follows) and also by topic (ie defining product management, being a PM, product discovery, product teams)

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Mistakes that Product People Make

Earlier this week, I was invited to give a talk at a virtual Product meetup. It was a lot of fun and gave me a chance to practice a new talk I plan on continuing to give. 

The topic? Mistakes that Product People Make.

I’ve literally interviewed hundreds of product people at this point in emceeing events, hosting our INDUSTRY Interview live video Q&A chat series, and co-hosting Rocketship.FM. In almost every interview, I always ask the question about mistakes – as it’s great to acknowledge them so we can all do our best to avoid them. In the talk, I detail 10 different mistakes I’ve heard over the years – but I’ll share two of them here.

1. Early products tend to try to do way too much. They bloat themselves with mediocre “nice to have” features, which end up hiding those features that may actually have a chance to delight their users. The best new products keep things simple from the start. Remember when Cash App was Square Cash and all you could do was email somebody money? Sure, there were no dashboards or social features. But it felt… magical to me. It did one thing… really well. S/O to Jeff Morris Jr. for this one. 
2. When coaching product people, Product Leaders often fall back to strategies that have worked in the past. That sounds good, in theory, right? The problem is that every product person is different… and has their own unique motivations and desires. You may manage two product people at similar experience levels – but if one’s aspiration is to be a CPO and the other is to be the best Product Lead a team could ever have… you will need to manage, coach, and motivate them differently. I had fun talking this through with JJ Rorie. 

The truth is there are soooo many more mistakes made. And again, I’m guilty of so many myself. What mistakes do you see, though? Let me know – I want to hear about more of them!

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Purity Waigi - Product Management. Purity Waigi put together this product management resource stack in Notion. It’s built for everyone who is curious about product management. Purity updates it regularly as she comes across new resources.
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Best resources for product management. The folks at Zeda.io gathered relevant sources that people who want to learn about product management can refer to. These sources won’t give you 100% professional mastery but they will help you build a good base about product management. The list includes a variety of topics with five posts under each topic and provides an alternative to endless scrolling around looking for information..
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A Living list of product management resources you’ll want to bookmark. All successful product managers have one thing in common — they keep learning and absorbing new knowledge to stay up to date with the newest trends in product management.
With that in mind, Team Infinity shared the resources they used to create their product management framework. This list of books, courses, podcasts, tools and templates will help busy product managers stay at the top of the game.
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