This is a collection of free resources on the topic of product management. The following resources have helped me in my PM journey and will hopefully help you as well.
Product Management Basics
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Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz
Ten Traits of Good Product Managers by Agile Insiders
What, exactly, is a Product Manager? by Martik Eriksson
Product Manager Role
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The Evolving Product Manager Role by John Cutler
How to Spend Your First 90 Days as a New Product Manager by The Clever PM
Lessons From my First 90 Days as a Product Manager at a New Company by Product Coalition
15 Things You Should Know About Product Managers by John Cutler
Product Manager vs Product Owner by Melissa Perri
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Product Vision
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Product Vision vs. Mission by Marty Cagan
Visiontyping and the Hands-On Executive by Marty Cagan
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Product Strategy
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Enduring Ideas: The three horizons of growth by McKinsey
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Product Metrics
North Start Metric by Amplitude
How to choose the right UX metrics for your product by Google Ventures
Leading vs. lagging indicators by BMC
Product Discovery
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Time in Product Discovery by Teresa Torres
Fix delivery to make time for discovery by Teresa Torres
Product Discovery in the Multitrack of Madness by The Startup
5 steps to a hypothesis-driven design process by Invision
Collaborative Alignment for Product Managers by Arne Kittler
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User Research
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Customer Interview Questions by Teresa Torres
6 tips for better UX Interviews by UX Planet
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Experimentation
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Designing Strong Experiments by Strategyzer
The most common pitfalls and how to avoid them by Strategyzer
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Product Team
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The Lea Hickman Hypothesis: Product Management is a Team Sport
The Secret Weapon of Retrospectives – the Team Radar by Petra Wille
Empowered Product Teams by Marty Cagan
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Breaking into Product Management
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Interviewing Product Managers by Agile Insider
The Ultimate Guide to Product Manager Interview Questions by Andy Jagoe
How to Hire a Product Manager by Ken Norton
7 Tips for Hiring a Great Product Manager (and Avoid Hiring a Jaded One) by Product Plan