Product Manager Resources

February 7, 2021

I’ve had a peo­ple ask from time-to-time for ar­ti­cles that give a good overview of the prod­uct man­age­ment role. After shar­ing the same links a few times, I de­cided putting them on­line where they could be eas­ily ref­er­enced made sense. Hopefully this is help­ful to oth­ers as well!

Articles about the role of the prod­uct man­ager

Ok, so the first link is­n’t an ar­ti­cle, but I’ve al­ways loved this clip as it quickly com­mu­ni­cates the essence of the prod­uct man­ager role. The fol­low­ing ar­ti­cles all give a well-rounded overview of what a prod­uct man­ager does.

• Bud Tribble and Steve Jobs de­scrib­ing a Product Manager role in 1986 (YouTube)
• What, ex­actly, is a Product Manager? | Mind the Product
• The Product Manager Contribution | Silicon Valley Product Group
• What Does a Product Manager Do? | Brent Tworetzky

Product man­age­ment newslet­ters

Lately I’ve found that most of the new things that I learn in prod­uct come from newslet­ters. The newslet­ters I’ve linked to be­low are those that I con­sis­tently glean in­sights from.

• Marty Cagan’s SVPG Newsletter
• Lenny’s Newsletter (This is a paid newslet­ter at $150 per year which in­cludes ac­cess to a Slack prod­uct com­mu­nity, prod­uct re­sources, and live in­ter­views with prod­uct lead­ers — it’s to­tally worth it)
• John Cutler’s “Beautiful Mess”
• Ken Norton’s “Bringing the Donuts”
• Gibson Biddle’s “Friends of Gib” Newsletter

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Thoughts? Questions? Feel free to reach out to me at matt.bax­[email protected].