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New to Product Management
Articles, books, & templates I highly recommend understand to maximize your output if you're an ambitious new Product Manager.
Articles, books, & templates I highly recommend understand to maximize your output if you're an ambitious new Product Manager.
Matt Woods
What does a PM actually do?
@shreyas: Product Management—in 1 tweet.
How To Get Into Product Management (And Thrive)
https://medium.com/@noah_weiss/10-traits-of-great-pms-a7776cd3d9cd
https://www.quora.com/What-distinguishes-the-Top-1-of-product-managers-from-the-Top-10/answer/Ian-McAllister?srid=3wR&st=ns
Communicate
Listen to get context from your team's experts.
https://twitter.com/kevinyien/status/1321802360373563392?s=20
Set up customer feedback loops.
Customer research is the ultimate growth hack
Make feedback normal.
Radical Candor
Write clearly.
https://twitter.com/david_perell/status/1321656961264398336?s=20
https://blog.usejournal.com/writing-docs-at-amazon-e025808616bd
1-pager.
Shape Up
Lenny's Airbnb template
Roadmap.
Present the plan.
Plan
Understand the fundamental levers of your business & product
Successful business
4 Fits:
https://brianbalfour.com/essays/hubspot-growth-framework-100m
Successful product
Understand the market
April Dunford Positioning
https://review.firstround.com/how-superhuman-built-an-engine-to-find-product-market-fit
Understand retention
https://www.reforge.com/blog/growth-metric-acquisition-monetization-virality
Hierarchy of Engagement, Expanded
Understand acquisition
Growth Loops are the New Funnels
Product Channel Fit
Startups are cheaper to build, but more expensive to grow – here’s why
Lenny's how X got their first customers
Understand business model
Not sure where these fit yet
Top Growth concepts curated by Dan Hockenmaier:
https://twitter.com/danhockenmaier/status/1145416117667500032?s=20
Increase funnel conversion with Psych
Conservation of intent
Why Onboarding is the Most Crucial Part of Your Growth Strategy
Building your growth model and Ladder of Engagement
A Single-Minded Perspective On Growth
Mitigate risk
Everything is a bet.
Frontload your risks:
https://conversion-rate-experts.com/rrr/
Planning is guessing:
https://m.signalvnoise.com/planning-is-guessing/
Discovery
Shreyas: 3 quick tips for product discovery
Execute
Rahul Vora on momentum
The ONE Thing
Deadlines matter.
Avoid procrastination.
Additional Resources
Shreyas threads
Time for a meta-thread on the Product Management content I’ve posted over the past 6 months.
The PM Role
Good Product Managers, Great Product Managers
Why Product Management is an important role
Product Management can be a lonely job
The 4 possible stages of Product Management at companies
PM Skills
PM Career Skills Map
Understanding People
Probabilistic Thinking
High Agency
Beware Proof of Worth
LNO Effectiveness Framework - Leverage, Neutral, Overhead
The Agreed Target Quality Framework
The 2 modes in which PMs operate: Think & Do
Pre-mortems
A useful question to ask in B2B Product Management
Understanding and improving Product Sense
Strategy
Product Strategy, in 1 tweet
Good Product Strategy, Bad Product Strategy
What is NOT Strategy
Top 12 Strategy Books
PM Leadership
https://blackboxofpm.com/
Super Thinking for mental models
Templates
My favorite product management templates
Q: I’ve seen you share a few PM templates in the past. Do you have a place to find all of your favorite templates?
www.lennysnewsletter.com
What does a PM actually do?
Communicate
Plan
Mitigate risk
Execute
Additional Resources
Shreyas threads
Templates
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