Overview

Product Management is an organizational function that guides every step of a product’s lifecycle: from development, to positioning and pricing, by focusing on the product and its customers first and foremost. To build the best possible product, product managers advocate for customers within the organization and make sure the voice of the market is heard and heeded.

Thanks to this focus on the customer, product teams routinely ship better-designed and higher-performing products. In tech, where entrenched products are quickly uprooted by newer and better solutions, there is more need than ever for an intimate understanding of customers and the ability to create tailored solutions for them. That’s where product management comes in.

Skills, Areas of Responsibility

Strategy

Intro to Product Strategy

Execution

Courses

Frameworks

Certifications

Resources

Articles

Books

Conferences, Communities & Meetups

People to Follow

  • Ken Norton - Partner @GVTeam. Formerly PM @Google.
  • Josh Elman - Partner, @GreylockVC: @Medium, @Jelly, @AppMeerkat, @Operator, @discordapp @Nextdoor.
  • Hunter Walk - @homebrew, Seed Stage Venture Fund w @satyap. Made products at YouTube, Google & SecondLife.
  • Ian McAllister - Director of Product at Airbnb. Former Amazon and founder of @AmazonSmile.
  • Marty Cagan - I'm a partner at Silicon Valley Product Group, specializing in product teams and product strategy
  • Ellen Chisa - VP Product for http://lolatravel.com , temporary @harvardhbs dropout.
  • Jackie Bavaro - Asana Product Manager. Co-Author of Cracking the PM Interview. Previously @ Google & Microsoft
  • Fernando Delgado - Sr. Product Manager at Google. Previously worked as an Entrepreneur, Product Management Coach, and Sr Director of Product Management at Yahoo.
  • Julie Zhuo - Product design VP @ Facebook.
  • Joel Spolsky - CEO of Stack Overflow, co-founder of Fog Creek Software (FogBugz, Kiln), and creator of Trello.
  • Bruce McCarthy - Innovator, consultant, coach, and evangelist for better products and product development
  • Des Traynor - Co-founder of @intercom.
  • Sachin Rekhi - Entrepreneur, Product Guy, and Software Engineer.
  • Adam Nash - CEO @Wealthfront
  • Rich Mironov - Tech start-up veteran, product exec/coach/mentor, writer (Art of Product Management)
  • Eric Ries - Trying to change how startups are built.
  • Steven Sinofsky - Board Partner @a16z • Adviser @BoxHQ • Writings @ Learning by Shipping
  • Janna Bastow - Co-Founder of MTP/CEO at ProdPad/CoFounder ProductTank and ProductCamp London
  • Martin Eriksson - Co-Founder at MTP/ProductTank
  • Simon Cast - Co Founder MTP/ProductTank/ProdPad
  • Charunethran Panchalam Govindarajan - Product Manager, Intel / Social Entrepreneur / Tech Enthusiast

Tools

- [Which tools do product managers use?](https://www.aha.io/roadmapping/guide/product-management/which-tools-do-product-managers-use)

Product Roadmap
Prototyping & Wireframing

Jobs, Career & Professional Development