These are some miscellaneous resources related to the discipline of ✨ product management ✨ that I find interesting or helpful.
github.com/benjaminchait/at-work includes links to my current templates for things like a 1-pager, a "product requirements doc", and more
Some links that I find myself referencing often...
- Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names
- radiate intent
- What I Wish Someone Had Told Me
- Choose optimism
- The Best
- Advice
- Seeing What’s Next
- Bored People Quit
- Make better documents.
- Applying Brooks' Law to Lines of Communication and Team Size
- The work is never just “the work”
- How I ship projects at big tech companies
- Everyone is wrong about that Slack flowchart
- Easing Group Decision Making: A View, A Voice, A Vote Or A Veto
- Shamir Secret Sharing
- Why Craigslist Has A Near Perfect Design…For Craigslist
- The Design Theory Behind Amazon’s $5.6 Billion Success
- Adding delays to increase perceived value: does it work?
- Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra.
- The Build Trap by Melissa Perri
- Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torers
- Build Better Products by Laura Klein
- Same as Ever by Morgan Housel
- Burn Book by Kara Swisher
- Extremely Hardcore by Zoë Schiffer
- An Elegant Puzzle by Will Larson
- Learning by Shipping by Steven Sinofsky
- Silicon Valley Product Group
- Lenny's newsletter
- Reforge
- Kristen Berman product teardowns
- Good Group Product Manager
- Rands Leadership Slack is a fantastic community of both engineering and product leaders
- Mind the Product is a good community, and in the before-times was a great irl event
- Joshua Herzig-Marx maintains a list of books about management & leadership and resources to become a better PM