# Product resources

When people ask for product management resources, I always point them to Nicholas Ivanecky's Open Product Management repository.

It's a curated collection of product frameworks, interviews, books, and career advice. Unfortunately, many corporate firewalls block GitHub.

With Nicholas's permission, here's a snapshot of the complete list:

Last updated: January 12, 2019

## About

Open-Product-Management is an amazing list for people who need a refresher in Product Management, so the best ways to use are:

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1# Table of Contents
2
3## Core 1: Product Management
4
5- What is Product Management
6- Is it really for you?
7- Becoming a Product Guru
8- Building Great Products
9- Get out of the building
10- All about those Requirements
11- Roadmaps, Planning, and prioritization
12- How to work with Engineers
13- User Experience
14- How to work with Designers
15- Give and Receive Feedback
16- Shipping and Measuring Products
17- Organizing your Team
18- Become the Best in the Field
19- MVPM: Minimum Viable Product Manager
20
21## Core 2: Resources
22
23- Design
24- Development
25- Mockups and Marketing
26- Team Management
27- Analytics
28- Books
29- Newsletters
30- Podcasts
31- Online Courses
32- Online Blogs
33
34## Core 3: Real Life Product Management
35
36- Interviews
37- Product Case Studies
38- Sample Product Documentation
39- Communities to Join — Groups — Meetups — Conferences
40
41## Core 4: Get the Job
42
43- Career Prep Resume
44- Career Prep The Interview
45- Career Prep Where to Apply
46- Career Prep Company Types
47
48## Misc
49
50- Best Product Managers on Twitter
51- Special Thanks
52- Contributing to the list

## Core 1: Product Management

### What is Product Management

### Is it really for you?

### Becoming a Product Guru

### Building Great Products

### Get out of the building

### All about those Requirements

### Roadmaps, Planning, and Prioritization

### How to work with Engineers

### User Experience

### How to work with Designers

### Give and Receive Feedback

### Shipping and Measuring Products

### Organizing your Team

### Become the Best in the Field

## Core 2: Resources

### Resource Repositories

### Design

### Development

### Mockups and Marketing

  • moqups — A streamlined web app that helps you create and collaborate on wireframes, mockups, diagrams and prototypes.
  • Typeform — Generate surveys in seconds.
  • Balsamiq — Rapid wireframing tool.
  • Tweetdeck — Power-user interface for Twitter.
  • Flinto for Mac — The prototyping tool designers have been waiting for.
  • EdisonPlan — The ultimate tool to plan & launch your product.
  • Precursor — A real-time collaborative prototyping tool
  • App Screenshot Builder — Create gorgeous images for your App Store page in minutes.
  • StartupResources.io — Tightly curated lists of the best startup tools

### Team Management

  • Airtable — Spreadsheet, meet database.
  • Trello — Trello makes it easy to organize anything with anyone
  • Google Docs — Create and share your work online
  • Slack — Team communication for the 21st century
  • Product Center by Ramen — The best way for SaaS product teams to learn from customers
  • Evernote — Note taking made easy
  • Google Drive — Create and collaborate on literally any type of content
  • Blossom — Agile Project Management
  • Keynote — Make awesome presentations quickly
  • Quip — The productivity suite for the mobile generation
  • Do — Run Productive Meetings.
  • Producteev — Task Management Software for Teams.
  • Box Notes — Create documents, take notes and share ideas in real-time.
  • RealtimeBoard 2.0 — Web-based whiteboarding & team collaboration tool
  • Smartsheet — Microsoft Project alternative, best used for scheduling and resource management
  • Zenkit — Better Trello, with Mindmaps

### Analytics

### Books

#### Design

#### Startups

#### Marketing

#### Product Development

#### Leadership

### Newsletters

  • Pivot Product Hits — A weekly email newsletter of the best Product Management content
  • Weekly Thoughts of Tim Herbig — A weekly digest of personal advice for product people and interesting articles around product, ux and entrepreneurship

### Podcasts

### Courses

### Blogs

  • The Cranky Product Manager — A blog on product management, product marketing, and the ugly side of software product development. As of April 2015, the author, Sue Raisty, no longer writes, but she has a large backlog of great posts.
  • Street Smart Product Manager — Thriving in the urban jungle of product.
  • Product Talk — Make better product decisions.
  • Silicon Valley Product Group — Shares lessons learned and knowledge of product management.
  • The Clever PM — Tips, tricks, and hacks that help you to be a better, more clever, Product Manager.
  • Mind the Product — Product Management Blog and events.

## Core 3: Real Life Product Management

### Interviews

### Product Case Studies

### Sample Product Documentation

### Communities to Join

#### Groups

#### Meetups

#### North America

#### Europe

#### Asia

#### South America

#### Conferences

  • Mind the Product Conference — The Conference for Passionate Product People
  • Industry — Product Conference — For people who build, launch and scale world-class product.
  • Lean Startup Week — Lean Startup Week is a seven-day immersion into Lean Startup methodology led by star practitioners in big companies and hot startups from around the world.
  • Enterprise UX 2016 — The Enterprise UX 2016 conference is dedicated to delivering useful, delightful, and humane experiences to people who work for and in enterprises.
  • Product Camp Brasil — The event is now the largest on Product Management in Latin America, where Brazilian and international speakers share their learnings about Product, UX and Growth with the participants.

## Core 4: Get the Job

### Hiring a Product Manager Tips/Tricks

### Career Prep: Resume

### Career Prep: Where to Apply

### Career Prep: The Interview

### Career Prep: Company Types

## Best Product Managers on Twitter

  • 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
  • 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

## Special Thanks

  • Special Thanks to Paul Cothenet for providing the Base of Core 1: Product Management

## Contributing to the list

## License

To the extent possible under law, Nicholas Ivanecky has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.