The Best Articles in Product Management
The most useful articles and videos in Product Management from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Product Management Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Product Management by Refind users in 2023.
Videos
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The ultimate guide to OKRs | Christina Wodtke (Stanford)
Christina Wodtke is an author, Stanford University professor, and speaker who teaches strategies for building high-performing teams. She’s also the author of...
How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics
Paige Costello is a beloved product leader with a reputation as a remarkable coach and mentor. She is currently the Head of Core Product at Asana, where she ...
Career frameworks, A/B testing, onboarding tips, selling to engineers
Laura Schaffer is the brand-new VP of Growth at Amplitude. Prior to this role, she spent over 10 years leading product management and growth teams at Twilio,...
Building minimum lovable products, stories from WeWork & Airbnb, and thriving as a PM
Jiaona Zhang (JZ) is a product leader with a strong background in consumer products and extensive hiring and management experience. She is currently Senior V...
How to create an API Product Strategy
Hosted by Square's Lead Product Manager, Abhishek Bharadwaj, together with Department of Product and Sendbird.In this live session, we explore:How to devel...
What is ...?
New to Product Management? These articles make an excellent introduction.
What is the future of Product Management?
John Cutler's answer: The future of product management will involve a move towards The Catalyst archetype below (and Technologist for specific domains). There are a couple of reasons for this: 1. Data available to teams, affordable tooling to cross-pollinate insights, the speed of feedback, and ...
How to ...?
How to write a project status report that works for your team
Learn how an effective project status report can cut down on meetings and messages, clear up confusion, identify and resolve issues quickly, and ensure everyone’s on the same page.
How to Build Products Quickly
If you’ve ever had the joys of working in both an early stage startup and a large corporation, you’ll understand the difference between a company with an operating cadence of ‘run’ and a company with…
How to Create a Voice of the Customer Program
8 tips from product leaders at Figma, Etsy, Google, and more.
«Customers are genuinely happy to see their feedback incorporated into a company's product roadmap. Retention increases, loyalty increases, and NPS scores generally go up.»
How to Structure your Day Using Energy Levels as a Product Manager
With product management often requiring a diverse bunch of different skill sets, it can be overwhelming to try to structure your day in a way that optimises each of the activities these skill sets are…
How to think about task estimation
Task estimation is hard because you don't actually know what task estimation is. Let me fix that for you.
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The 100 Best Bits of Advice Ever Shared on First Round Review
We combed The Review archives for a special compilation of the 100 very best advice published on our digital pages over the last 10 years from folks like Stewart Butterfield, Claire Hughes Johnson and…
How to Launch a Startup With a 'Ready-Made' Product or Service
Launching a startup using a turnkey product can be a feasible and successful strategy. Here's what you need to know.
Organize Your Week as an Engineering Manager
How to Fill and Organize Your Weekly Calendar as an EM
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles in Product Management—all under 10 minutes.
4 Engineering Slides CEOs Love (That You Can Have For Free)
Never stress out before meeting your boss again.
How to do product positioning
Making products is hard. The advice you get doesn't help much; either it's too vague to be useful or too specific to be applicable to your situation. These notes build a model of how products work…
Briefly: The Value of Meetings, and Some Alternatives
Shopify continues to attract attention for it’s ridiculously reductionist takes productivity, from meeting armageddon to more recently a meeting cost calculator.
«Getting and clarifying information Building shared understanding Recognition and celebration Reinforcing values Building social bonds and trust»
(People on) Nice Teams Finish Last
One of the most common management mistakes is not providing clarity when people are wrong on important, invested efforts.
«So remember, much like many other management problems, trying to be “nice” where you should be clear is one of the worst things you can do. Make sure there’s no ambiguity when someone is wrong on a big thing. Be empathetic, be polite, but be clear.»
On Wielding Influence
Last month I got to attend GOTO Chicago and give a talk about continuous deployment and high-performing teams. I did a terrible job, and I’m not being modest. I had just rolled off a delayed …
«By giving people the chance to process their reactions in private, you give them space to learn, ask questions, and even change their mind without losing face»
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Product Management.
Helicopter Management and Other Mistakes
You are a freshly minted manager. You come full of rage and frustration at the poor management you’ve endured and witnessed in tech, and you are god damn determined not to repeat all of those mista…
Creating a Culture of Listening
The first step is to listen more and talk less
Lean Product Design: A Playbook
Creating a new product is an exciting process. You’ve dreamed up a killer idea, drafted some sketches and maybe even started to think about how you’d make money out of this world beating idea. But…
The Silent Killer of Your Operating Practice: Fear
Amanda Schwartz Ramirez, former PayPal strategy leader and now COO advisor for startups, shares the 5 biggest fears that can derail your company's strategic planning sessions (and tactical advice for…
Performance & Compensation (for Eng Execs).
Uber’s original performance process was called “T3B3” and was remarkably simple: write the individuals top 3 strengths, and top 3 weaknesses, and share the feedback with them directly in person. There…
Podcasts
On the go? Listen to these Podcasts and audio in Product Management.
133. What Product Managers do off the clock by Product Coffee
Lindsey, Kevin, Taj, and Lou discuss what they do off of the clock. Whether it’s contracting, inventing, tinkering, or just spending time to recharge, hear what the crew has to say about their…
119. Risk Mitigation by Product Coffee
Taj and Lou discuss what it's like to incorporate risk into your Product work and how to take strategic bets. Follow us on LinkedIn, Instagram, or Twitter & check out our website @…
Justin Blumenthal - Product Manager at Coinbase by Product Stacks
Justin Blumenthal is product manager at Coinbase where he leads P2P crypto payments and the Coinbase Card. During his time at Coinbase, Justin launched new features including multichain send and…
134. Test Coverage in Product (w/Adam Wanninger) by Product Coffee
Adam Wanninger is on the show! Adam is a FinTech Product Leader at Fortune 100 companies, including JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo. Kevin and Adam discuss how test coverage contributes to building a…
Thought Leaders
We monitor hundreds of thought leaders, influencers, and newsletters in Product Management, including:

Ryan Singer
Builder, designer, strategist. Author of Shape Up. Prev: 37signals. Email rjs@hey.com
Nir Eyal
Bestselling author of "Hooked" and "Indistractable"
Jason Fried
Founder & CEO at 37signals (makers of Basecamp and HEY). Non-serial entrepreneur, serial author. No DMs, email me at jason@hey.com.

Jay Stansell | Product Coalition
http://ProductCoalition.com founder, making mastery of product management accessible for all
andrew chen
a16z GAMES FUND ONE. Investing in games, AI, VR/AR, metaverse, and the future of entertainment!
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