Resources

There are so many great people sharing their product insights with the world. Here are some of my favorite resources.

People & Sites to Follow

• Jeff Atwood: Coding Horror
• Gibson Biddle
• Steve Blank
• Marty Cagan: Silicon Valley Product Group
• Mike Cohn
• Nis Frome
• Amy Jo Kim
• Tristan Kromer
• Alex Osterwalder: Strategyzer
• Eric Ries
• Bob Sutton
• Teresa Torres: Product Talk
• Christina Wodtke

Communities, Meetups & Conferences

• Collaborative Gain
• Lean Startup Co.
• Mind the Product
• Women in Product

Books to Read & Reference

My bookcase is filled with all kinds of product and business books. Here are some of my favorites that I go back to over time:

General Product Methodology & Techniques

• Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steven Blank
• Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan
• Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen
• Story Mapping by Jeff Patton
• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

Agile & Scrum

• Agile Excellence for Product Managers by Greg Cohen
• Agile Product Management with Scrum by Roman Pichler
• Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great by Esther Derby and Diana Larsen
• Succeeding with Agile by Mike Cohn
• The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P Brooks, Jr.

Customer Discovery & Research

• Don’t Make Me Think Revisited by Steve Krug
• Jobs to be Done by Stephen Wunker, Jessica Wattman and David Farber
• Mental Models by Indi Young
• See What I Mean by Kevin Cheng
• Talking to Humans by Giff Constable

Analytics

• Lean Analytics by Alistair Croll & Benjamin Yoskovitz
• Seeing What Others Don’t by Gary Klein

Job Search Survival

• Cracking the PM Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell and Jackie Bavaro
• Negotiating Your Salary: How to Make $1000 a Minute by Jack Chapman
• Oh the Places You’ll Go by Dr. Seuss
• The First 90 Days by Michael B. Watkins
• The 2-Hour Job Search by Steve Dalton

Creativity, Business & Management

• Good Boss, Bad Boss by Robert Sutton
• Good to Great by Jim Collins
• Managing Humans by Michael Lopp
• Start with Why by Simon Sinek
• The Art of Innovation by Tom Kelley
• The Hustle Daily Email – email newsletter about technology and business
• The Skimm – another news email but clever writing
• Weird Ideas that Work by Robert Sutton
• Value Proposition Design by Alex Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur, Greg, Bernarda and Alan Smith

Community & Forum Specific Product Resources

• Buzzing Communities by Richard Millington

Web Content Strategy & Design

• Clout: the Art and Science of Influential Web Content by Colleen Jones
• Content Strategy for the Web by Kristina Havorson & Melissa Rach
• Forms that Work by Caroline Jarrett and Gerry Gaffney
• Implementing Responsive Design by Tim Kadlec
• Letting Go of the Words by Janice (Ginny) Redish
• Mobile Usability by Jakob Nielsen and Raluca Budiu