Lenny’s Newsletter
Tactical breakdown of the biggest common questions in product management + interviews with world’s top product operators.
The Beautiful Mess
Explorations into the nuanced reality of what building products is really like.
The Blackbox of PM
Extremely well thought out articles on the foundational concepts of product management and being a product manager.
Good PM Bad PM
Easily the most famous article on product management ever written. If you haven’t read it, read it right now.
Learning Loop’s Business Model Patterns
Compilation of 76 business model patterns.
Learning Loop’s Validation Patterns
Compilation of 60 different validation techniques.
Learn Loop’s Workshop Patterns
Compilation of 109 different workshop patterns. Learn these and you’ll be a workshop grandmaster.
Stare
Hundreds of in-depth product teardowns.
Untools
Collection of thinking tools and frameworks.
productmanagement.world
Huge knowledge graph of product concepts.
Sriram Krishnan's blog
Incredible collection of RAW internal memos.
Hustle Badger
40+ definitive guides to strategy, execution, the PM career, and tons of case studies.
Find The Right Product Framework & Technique. No More Guesswork.
There’s an AI For That
Search through over 5000 AI tools to find the perfect one for your tast. Updated daily.
Firstround Review
Incredible breakdowns of many of product management’s most difficult topics to nail down. Their “Paths to Product-Market Fit” series is especially unique and awesome.
GoodUI
Improve Your UI With Winning & Losing A/B Tests. 70+ categories + examples of real-world A/B tests.
productmanager.jobs
Highly curated PM job board. Updated all the time.
IGotAnOffer
Tons of case studies + interview prep
The Career Whispers
Tips for people in tech careers: career wellness, pivots, job searches, interviewing, promotions, and compensation.
UserOnboard
100s of onboarding UX teardowns
Product 5x
50 free templates + case studies + interview prep
darkpatternstipline.org
Analyses of dark ux patterns
growth.design
Fun product breakdowns with bitmoji mascots
Product Growth
The deepest dives in the web on product management, growth, and technology - so you can crush your job | 1-2x a week.
60 Days of Product Management
A guided tour through the best PM content out there. Made by yours truly.
AI Megaprompts for PMs
A collection of more than 50 super-powerful AI megaprompts for almost every PM task. Made by yours truly.
The Futureproof PM
The world, and the PM career, is changing fast. The best way to prepare for the future is to start living in it. A deep dive into a fundamental aspect of PM with an AI use case to solve it.
Lewis Lin’s PM Question Bank
Absolutely ridiculous collection of over 1500 PM interviews questions from the world’s best companies.
Gibson Biddle’s Medium
Tons of great content, along with the deepest dive into coming up with a product strategy that I’ve found.
Paul Graham’s Essays
This is the legendary YC founder’s website for personal and tech musings. Deep, unconventional insights abound.
Eigenquestions: The Art of Framing Problems
Classic article on the art of framing questions from the CEO of Coda.
The Pmarca Guide to Startups
Pure masterclass on everything you need to know and think about in the world of startups, by a16z cofounder Marc Andreessen.
Reforge’s Blog
The world renowned product course company offers a ton of excellent free content.
Reforge Courses
Top-tier courses by world class instructors. Amazing, but expensive (>$2000/year). Good thing to expense if you can.
First 1000
Breakdowns of how your favorite companies managed to get their first 1000 users on their way to achieving PMF.
Amplitude’s Blog
Excellent blog for best practices on setting goals and using metrics to build great products.
Lenny’s Podcast
Incredibly in-depth interviews with the top operators at companies with incredible product cultures.
Master’s of Scale
Award-winning business advice from Silicon Valley and beyond. Iconic CEOs, from Nike to Netflix, Starbucks to Slack, share the strategies that helped them grow from startups into global brands.
Product Stories
Interviews with PMs on how they started their journey’s and got to where they are now.
One Knight in Product
Interviews with thought leaders, authors, product leaders, practitioners and those just starting out. This is a chance to hear their stories and get some inspiration from their experience - to help you work more effectively, build better products, be a better leader and much more.
Product Manager Toolkit
Tools and templates to grow your career Fast-track your product career using proven templates and real examples. Skip years of guesswork. Jump ahead with the Toolkit.
UX Collective
Best content on UX
Built for Mars
61 UX case studies, highlighting why some designs work, and others fail horribly. Contextualised with practical UX psychology and cheatsheets.
Smashing Magazine
Articles and resources covering nearly every aspect of product design you could ever imagine.
NN Group
The author of The Design of Everyday Things created this website to dive into all aspects of creating amazing products.
Product Management Program by CareerFoundry
Learn all of the skills, tools, and processes you need to become a product manager.
Introduction to Product Management by Cognitir
In this course, participants will be exposed to key product management topics, including A/B testing, wireframing, and leading user interviews. The class includes an in-class project where participants will build an MVP for a business idea that they have.
Product Management A-Z by Udemy
Product Management A-Z shows you how to build and deliver technology products that your customers will love—and that will work for your business.
Product Management Course by BrainStation
Start a product management career with a Product Management course that provides cutting-edge skills in product strategy, Agile methodology, Lean product development, wireframing, prototyping, and more to help you become a Product Manager.
Free Product Management Course by Great Learning Academy
Learn from industry experts, hone your skills with practical examples, and boost your career potential. Take the first step towards becoming a successful product manager.
Become a Product manager — Learn the Skills & Get the Job by Udemy
The most updated and complete Product Management course on Udemy. You'll learn the skills that make up the entire Product Management job and process: from ideation to market research, to UX wireframing to prototyping, technology, metrics, and finally to building the product with user stories, project management, scoping, and leadership.
Managing your PM Career in 2023 & beyond by Shreyas Doshi
Frameworks, Tactics, Templates Shreyas has been sharing in his 1:1 career coaching over the past 10 years, so you can build a great product career.
Building AI-powered Products 101 by Dr Marily Nika
Learn the basic concepts, frameworks, tools needed to build AI products with 0 coding experience & get certified!
Dan Olsen’s YouTube channel
Dan is the founder of Lean Product monthly speaker series in Silicon Valley, where he hosts top product thought leaders to share their wisdom. This channel contains the videos of Lean Product speakers, as well as videos of his talks.
Exponent YouTube channel
Want to land your dream tech career? Exponent is an online community, course, and coaching platform to help you ace your upcoming tech interview. Exponent has helped people land their dream careers in product management (PM), software engineering, data science, product marketing management, and more.
Product Gym's PM Program
This product management career program helps people transition into product management by developing their existing backgrounds.
Product School YouTube channel
Hands-on activities, real-world case studies, tools, and frameworks needed to build digital products from end to end and lead cross-functional teams.
PM Diego Granados YouTube channel
Diego loves helping others break into Product Management, so if you need help, you've come to the right place!
Women In Product YouTube channel
Women In Product is a non-profit organization passionate about diversity in product management. Their mission is to equip women and non-binary folks to thrive in product management careers at all levels.
The Product Folks YouTube channel
The Product Folks is a volunteer-driven community of product managers and enthusiasts who are passionate about the latest trends and learning more about this innovative field. We're just getting started and aim to help the PM community grow together.
Mind the Product - YouTube channel
Mind the Product is the world's largest community of product people. Started in 2010 with the very first ProductTank meetup in London and followed by the Mind the Product Conference in 2012 it has now grown to consist of 300,000+ members and sold out events in 200+ cities around the world.
Lenny's Podcast - YouTube channel
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover concrete, actionable, and tactical advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Y Combinator - YouTube channel
Videos to help you build a successful startup.
a16z - YouTube channel
a16z is a venture capital firm that invests in software eating the world. Each week, they share videos on technology trends and advice for building companies.
Bring the Donuts
Ken Norton started blogging about product management in 2005 because he couldn’t find anything on the web about what it meant to be a product manager in an empowered, user-centric tech company. His classic essay How To Hire a Product Manager has since become the playbook for a generation of product managers.
The Department of Product by Richard Holmes and Jason Leonard
Tons fo great, in-depth articles about Strategy, Process, Skills, Explainers, Resources and more
Hacker Noon
HackerNoon is built for technologists to read, write, and publish. We are an open and international community of 35,000+ contributing writers publishing stories and expertise for 5 - 8 Million curious and insightful monthly readers.
Product Talk by Teresa Torres
Focus on content that is easy to digest and immediately actionable. Tactics and techniques that you can read (or watch) in just a few minutes and apply it to your own work the very same day.
🌎 General
👩🎨 Product Design
Product Coalition by Jay Stansell
The Product Coalition’s mission is to make mastery of product management globally accessible.
Elezea by Rian van der Merwe
The content here is primarily focused on product management and leadership, the software development process, and working better together.
The Intercom Blog by Intercom
Articles on Customer Service, Customer Support, Product Design, and more.
🌎 General
👩🎨 Product Design
The Product Podcast
Tune in to The Product Podcast, where we chat to all-star Product Leaders from Google, Facebook, Amazon, and dozens of other tech companies. Talk about everything from breaking into the industry and setting career goals, to collaborating with diverse teams and knowing when to pivot.
This is Product Management
This is Product Management features the brightest minds across the numerous disciplines that fuel modern product teams. Learn from product leaders, authors, and Founders, from companies such as Adobe, Shopify, Viacom, Under Armour, and many more. They share their insights and best practices for experimentation, user research, leadership, corporate innovation and more.
Product Hunt Radio
Product Hunt Radio is a a weekly podcast with the people creating and exploring the future. Tune in every week with Ryan Hoover and Abadesi Osunsade as they're joined by founders, investors, journalists, and makers to discuss the latest in tech.
How I Built This with Guy Raz
Guy Raz interviews the world’s best-known entrepreneurs to learn how they built their iconic brands. In each episode, founders reveal deep, intimate moments of doubt and failure, and share insights on their eventual success. How I Built This is a master-class on innovation, creativity, leadership and how to navigate challenges of all kinds.
Product Love
“Product Love” is the feeling you get when you have that incredible and joyous connection towards your favorite products. What makes certain products so lovable to us? Great for anyone who wants to learn about product management from the best executive product leaders across various disciples.
Rocketship FM
Great for entrepreneurs, product managers, and anyone working in tech today. They break down the concepts you need to know, from Product Management to Growth, Sales to Funding, we'll bring you stories that will inspire and insights that will change the way you think about product and business.
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis covers startups, tech, markets, media, and all the hottest topics in business and technology. He also interviews the world’s greatest founders, operators, investors, and innovators.
Proof To Product Podcast
Join Katie Hunt, each week as she shares strategies & solutions to enhance your sales & marketing so that you’re building a business that supports your best life.
Product Thinking by Melissa Perri
Successful product management isn’t just about training the product managers who work side by side with developers everyday to build better products. It’s about taking a step back, approaching the systems within organizations as a whole, and leveling up product leadership to improve these systems. This is the Product Thinking Podcast, where Melissa Perri will connect with industry leading experts in the product management space, AND answer your most pressing questions about everything product. Join us each week to level up your skillset and invest in yourself as a product leader.
The Product Experience
The Product Experience features conversations with the product people of the world, focusing on real insights of how to improve your product practice.
Product Talk
Interviews with VP-level product executives such as Netflix to learn their best practices on what it takes to build great products.
Bootstrapped
Running a bootstrapped software company? Looking to start one? Then this is the podcast for you.
Conscious Product Development toolkit
Free Tools For Conscious Product Managers
Simple methods that I’ve developed for myself & used with my clients to connect the WHY + WHAT to the HOW of building products and our careers more consciously
Lenny’s Favorite Templates
Below are all of my favorite templates and frameworks that I rely on. As a bonus, I asked the wonderful people of Twitter to share their favorites, from which I picked my favorites and included. Enjoy!
The Lean Startup
This book by Eric Ries presents a scientific approach to creating and managing startups. PMs will benefit from understanding how to adapt to changes rapidly and efficiently, learning to drive product development with maximum innovation and minimum waste.
Continuous Discovery Habits
Teresa Torres introduces a set of habits that product teams can use to accelerate customer learning. This book is vital for PMs aiming to make more informed decisions and produce better outcomes.
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman discusses the science of cognitive psychology and design. PMs can learn how to enhance user experience and design more intuitive products.
Good Strategy Bad Strategy
This book by Richard Rumelt helps distinguish good strategies from bad ones. It's great for PMs who want to sharpen their strategic thinking skills and execution planning.
Inspired
Marty Cagan provides a masterclass on how to structure and staff product teams for success. It's invaluable for PMs aiming to foster a strong product-focused culture.
Cracking the PM Interview
It offers insights into acing product management interviews at top tech companies. PMs will find valuable advice on interview preparation, and understanding what interviewers are looking for.
Decode and Conquer
This book helps PMs prepare for interviews by showcasing how to solve tough product strategy and design questions. It is recommended for anyone preparing for PM roles.
My Product Management Toolkit
Marc Abraham shares concepts, tools and tips used by the world’s leading PMs. PMs can learn best practices for managing products effectively and efficiently.
Product Management In Practice
This book offers an inside look at the day-to-day of product management. PMs can gain actionable insights about working with cross-functional teams, influencing without authority, and navigating organizational politics.
Swipe to Unlock
It breaks down complex tech concepts into easy-to-understand language. PMs can get a clearer understanding of the tech landscape and how different tech components interact.
The Lean Product Playbook
This book provides a step-by-step guide to apply Lean Startup ideas. PMs can learn how to test new ideas and improve existing products with this iterative approach.
Working Backwards
Former Amazon executives share the secrets of Amazon's incredible innovation. PMs can learn the methodologies Amazon uses for product development and decision-making.
User Story Mapping
Jeff Patton explains how this technique can help teams stay focused on users and their experience throughout the product development process. It's crucial for PMs who want to create products that genuinely meet users' needs.
Are Your Lights On?
This book delves into the art of problem-solving. It can help PMs become more proficient at identifying, addressing, and communicating about problems.
Decisive
Authors Chip and Dan Heath offer a four-step process to make better decisions. PMs can learn to make more effective decisions, a crucial part of the product management role.
Crossing the Chasm
Geoffrey Moore's book is a guide for high-tech companies looking to market their disruptive products to mainstream customers. A must-read for PMs in the tech industry.
Understanding Michael Porter
This book outlines Michael Porter's revolutionary thinking about competition and competitive strategy. PMs can learn how to analyze competitive forces in their product’s environment.
Obviously Awesome
April Dunford offers a step-by-step approach to positioning. PMs can learn how to articulate their product's value more effectively, a crucial skill for success.
Loved
Jules Lund explores how to transform customers into a community of passionate advocates. PMs can learn strategies to improve customer loyalty and create products that resonate deeply.
Don’t Make Me Think
Steve Krug's book is a guide to understanding the principles of intuitive navigation and information design. PMs will gain insights on creating user-friendly products.
Deploy Empathy
This book provides a practical guide to understanding user needs. PMs can learn how to conduct effective user research and empathize with their target audience.
The Mom Test
This book teaches how to ask the right questions during customer conversations and extract valuable insights. A crucial read for PMs needing to understand their users better.
Predictably Irrational
Dan Ariely explores why humans often make irrational decisions, which can inform the design and marketing of products. PMs can gain valuable insights into consumer behavior.
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel provides a unique perspective on personal finance, investing, and behavioral economics. PMs in financial tech would particularly benefit from this.
Never Split the Difference
Chris Voss shares negotiation techniques from his experience as an FBI hostage negotiator. PMs can improve their negotiation and persuasion skills, essential for stakeholder management.
Influence
Robert Cialdini presents the psychology of why people say "yes." PMs can learn how to be more persuasive and influence decisions.
The Secrets of Consulting
Gerald Weinberg offers wisdom about dealing with client problems. PMs in a consulting role can learn valuable lessons on managing client relationships and solving their issues.
Radical Candor
Kim Scott provides a framework for managing teams with empathy and clarity. PMs can learn how to build trust with their teams, give constructive feedback, and achieve results.
Extreme Ownership
Jocko Willink and Leif Babin teach leadership principles used by Navy SEALs. PMs can learn to take full responsibility, lead with high standards, and create effective teams.
Cracking the PM Career
Jackie Bavaro provides a roadmap for advancing in a product management career. It’s essential for PMs at any career stage seeking to navigate their career progression effectively.
The Making of a Manager
Julie Zhuo shares her learnings from becoming a rookie manager at Facebook. PMs can gain insights into leadership, managing others, and making critical decisions.
Amp it Up
This book introduces a framework for producing highly engaging products. PMs can learn techniques for driving user engagement and retention.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz shares his experiences and tough lessons from running a startup. PMs can learn strategies for handling difficult situations and making hard decisions.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Patrick Lencioni explores the fundamental causes of team dysfunction. PMs can learn how to build effective, high-performing teams.
What You Do Is Who You Are
Ben Horowitz explores how one's behavior becomes part of an organization's culture. PMs can understand the impact of their actions on shaping company culture.
The Build Trap
Melissa Perri discusses how companies can avoid getting stuck in the cycle of building features instead of solving customer problems. It's a critical read for PMs striving for customer-centric development.
Empowered
Marty Cagan and Chris Jones explain how the best product companies approach technology and empower product teams. PMs can learn how to transform their teams into engines of innovation.
Team of Teams
Gen. Stanley McChrystal offers insights on leadership and team management from his military career. PMs can learn how to manage large, complex projects and encourage a culture of cooperation.
200+ UX Resources & Bookmarks
Get access to UX Resources & Bookmarks used by 5000+ people. This library can help you find relevant information on your UX journey!
Strategyzer Experiment Library
Discover the library of 44 experiments to help test your business idea
Examples of the Product Vision and Strategy
Tons of examples of product, vision, and strategy from the world’s top companies.
Product Design Mindmap
Map of every aspect for product design, affinity mapped.
UX Research Methods
Modern day UX research methods answer a wide range of questions. To help you know when to use which user research method, each of 20 methods is mapped across 3 dimensions and over time within a typical product-development process.
PM Career Ladder Template
A rubric for showing which PM skills are generally need for each level of PM.
PM Onboarding
Onboarding template for when you bring a new PM to the team. (Could also use as an outline for yourself.)
Great Product Execution
Great product execution follows from having an effective product operating model: the way that you consistently ship features that create value for your users and business. This article dives into how to create an operating model.
Ask Gib
Gib answers product questions a few times each month. There are more than five hundred questions and some have as many as one hundred upvotes.
PM book summaries
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Aha’s Product management templates
All of the links in this article take you to template collections with expert guidance on how to make the most of each template.
Smartsheet’s templates
list of free, professional templates for roadmapping, the backlog, SWOT analysis, and product comparison.
280 Templates
Each of these documents includes the critical questions, issues, decisions, and considerations you must address in order to ensure a product’s success. They represent a comprehensive way of ensuring that nothing falls through the cracks and that everything is thought through – thoroughly and effectively.
Rekhi’s 100 resources
Another guided tour through the main PM concepts with some of the best articles on the internet.
Product Management Jobs
A weekly newsletter about the hottest jobs in product management, delivered to your inbox weekly.
Product School’s Slack Community
Slack Community for Product Managers
Network with over 100,000 PMs
Attend AMA's, 95 hosted in the past two years
Explore 26 local PM channels
Find answers to more than 20,000 PM questions
The Looking Glass
This is an every-three-or-four-week letter for product builders. We’ll talk about product & design, leadership & team, and the way we grow and evolve.
🌎 General
👑 Leadership
👩🎨 Product Design
Research Bookmark
Gain access to unlimited user experience resources templates, courses, webinar recordings and more
GeongYoung Bookmarks
Collection of useful design resources
toools.design
A growing archive of 1000+ design resources, weekly updated for the community.
PM Exercises
Best collection of PM interview questions with in-depth user-generated answers.
Product Frameworks
Collection of dozens of top-tier product frameworks.
Top SeaS growth case studies
40 extremely in-depth product case studies
MetricHQ
Explanation of hundreds of different product metrics, with advice on when to use and how to calculate them.
Dept of Product
Tons of examples and resources
Sprig’s AI Guide for Product Managers