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.
Videos
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What it takes to become a top 1% PM | Ian McAllister (Uber, Amazon, Airbnb)
Ian McAllister is the Senior Director of Product for Vehicles at Uber. Before moving to Uber, Ian spent over a decade directing teams at Amazon, where he cre...
The nature of product | Marty Cagan, Silicon Valley Product Group
How do you maintain your product mojo? What are common diseases of product teams, and how do you avoid them? Why should you focus less on problem discovery a...
Are your fears giving you terrible advice?
From episode: (https://youtu.be/bCel0X2Ta7U) How to fire people with grace, work through fear, and nurture innovation | Matt Mochary (CEO coach)—Matt Mochary...
How to build your product strategy stack | Ravi Mehta (Tinder, Facebook, Tripadvisor, Outpace)
Ravi was previously CPO at Tinder, Product Director at Facebook, and VP of Product at Tripadvisor. Currently, he’s co-founder and CEO of Outpace, a coaching ...
How to nail your product positioning
April Dunford is the author of the must-read best-selling book Obviously Awesome, a definitive guide to product positioning. She spent 25 years leading marke...
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 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 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 Design a Bulletproof Product Strategy
Anytime a company consistently ships product faster than the average, people will assume they are doing something heroic.
«Great product companies have four things in common: a clear product vision; a product strategy; a set of priorities; and a way to measure outcomes.»
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Evaluating Managers: 5 heuristics to measure managerial impact
Measuring a manager’s impact is hard since outcomes take time. The manager takes full responsibility for the team – be it stagnation, execution woes, poor collaboration, churn, or a lac…
«five measures: execution, strategic vision, people management, team growth, and organizational influence»
How to Build Technical Teams from Scratch
When you set out to bring a business concept to life, your first technical hiring question is whether to build the minimum viable product (MVP) yourself or hire someone else to do it. The factors to…
A Product Owner Career Path
This article explains how agile product people can advance their careers, from owning a product part to becoming the head of product.
Measuring an engineering organization.
For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most frequent topic that comes up is career management–what should I do next? The second most frequent topic is…
Maven's Path to Product-Market Fit
In the second post for our new series, "Paths to Product-Market Fit," Maven founder and CEO Kate Ryder sits down with First Round partner Todd Jackson to share the inside story of the first female-led…
«Far too often, folks building companies in fields that they’re the target audience for skip this step, instead jumping straight to building. But extensive problem validation is critical, even if you’ve got a super strong hunch and some anecdotal feedback to support your hypothesis.»
Short Articles
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How to manage multiple projects: Tips and tricks for juggling like a pro
Multiple projects don't have to mean mayhem. Learn tips and tricks for successfully managing multiple projects with less stress, chaos, and confusion.
«When considering task dependencies, you prioritize tasks that have a direct impact on others—and, as a result, the overall progress»
Leading without Being the Boss: Tips for Product People
Trust is crucial to lead people when you are not the boss. This article explains how to earn trust as the person in charge of the product.
OKRs vs KPIs: what's the difference
OKRs and KPIs may sometimes use the same metrics, but they have a different purpose.
«KPIs do not have targets, but there should be thresholds that trigger alerts. For instance, a sudden drop in the volume of leads should probably trigger a meeting to address that issue, and redirect resources if needed.»
Focus on high-leverage activities.
Leverage = impact produced / time invested. It is the ability to get more done with less effort, time or money.
«introduce the concept of leverage, which is the output generated by a specific type of work activity. An activity with high leverage will generate»
Five Ways to Address Complexity In Your Product
Scott Belsky's product lifecycle talks about keeping products simple. As products serve more use cases and use cases, how do you keep a product feeling simple? I explain five ways to approach this pro
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Product Management.
Investing in Internal Documentation: A Brick-by-Brick Guide for Startups
David Nunez, an early hire at Stripe and Uber, shares his step-by-step playbook for establishing good internal documentation habits at your startup. He unpacks his tested tactics for creating a…
What I Learned at Clubhouse 📓
I’ve learned a lot about building startups over the past few years, and have become much more opinionated on how to do it well. I spent the last 2 years at Clubhouse, where my learning was…
«Importantly, don’t just tell, rather show users how you want them to engage. Collaboration between community and product can be very valuable here.»
The Best Managers Don’t Fix, They Coach — Four Tools to Add to Your Toolkit
Anita Hossain Choudhry (The Grand, First Round) and Mindy Zhang (Dropbox, Oscar Health) draw on their experiences as executive coaches to unpack why managers fall into the “fixing” trap and make the…
«Empathetic listening means shifting from "What does this mean for me?" to "What's going on for this person?"»
The Art of Becoming a Better Listener — Tactical Advice for the Startup Setting
When it comes to annual resolutions and personal development goals, listening usually isn’t very high up on the list. User research leader and author Ximena Vengoechea makes the case for why you…
«Sometimes you have to go slow to move quickly. Investing time into listening to your colleagues or getting to know your users often ends up being a quicker path to success.»
The Minimum Viable Testing Process for Evaluating Startup Ideas
The traditional approach is to do some customer research, throw an MVP out there as fast as possible, and hope it hits. After being early at three startups that achieved over $1M in run-rate in their…
«In an MVP, you try to simulate the entire car. In an MVT, you are just testing whether the drivetrain is more powerful with an electric engine or a gas one.»
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…
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…
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 @…
Thought Leaders
We monitor hundreds of thought leaders, influencers, and newsletters in Product Management, including:

Ryan Singer
Software designer, builder, product strategist. Author of Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work That Matters. 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
Publications
We monitor hundreds of publications, blogs, newsletters, and news sources in Product Management, including:
Department of Product
Empowering the people who build products. Join 18,000+ from Netflix, Spotify, Google, Apple and get your free briefing: 👉 http://departmentofproduct.com/newsletter
UX Collective
Curated stories on user experience, usability, and product design. By @fabriciot and @caioab.
Mind the Product
Product Management community that blogs at http://MindTheProduct.com, meets at http://ProductTank.com, and conferences at http://mtpcon.com #mtpcon
Roman Pichler
Product management expert. Author of ‘Strategize', 'How to Lead in Product Managment’, and 'Agile Product Management with Scrum.'
a16z
we invest in software eating the world http://a16z.com/portfolio/ http://a16z.com/podcasts/
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