Awesome List of resources on Agile Software Development.
7 Brilliant Little Skills To Master Your Role As A Product Manager - by Janna Bastow. “What I’ve shared here is advice that I’ve learned over a decade of being a product manager – it certainly doesn’t happen overnight. Great products are built with learning and iteration. Great product managers are too.”
11 Ways I Visualize Product Development Work - by John Cutler. “Whenever you’re thinking high level, someone will bring you down to earth and ask you to get into the weeds. Whenever you’re in the weeds, someone will complain that you’re not being high level enough. It’s the burden we bear. Just when you think you’ve figured things out, you’ll encounter a person who needs to see your roadmap, or backlog, or “sprint backlog”, or “project”, or “plan” in a whole new way.”
12 Signs You’re Working in a Feature Factory - by John Cutler. “I’ve used the term Feature Factory at a couple conference talks over the past two years. I started using the term when a software developer friend complained that he was “just sitting in the factory, cranking out features, and sending them down the line.””
29 Indicators of a Product Manager’s Talent - by Julie Babb. “At Pivotal Labs, this is what we look for in a PM candidate.”
How to Break Free of the Feature Factory by John Cutler - by Arne Kittler. “There’s widespread tension in our industry, John says. While everyone talks about “outcomes over output” and says they strive for “real impact” with their craft, in our day-to-day work many of us simply give all our priorities and attention to shipping features.”
How to Survive the Hardest Part of Product Management by Janna Bastow - by Martin Eriksson. “There is probably one part of the product management job we can all agree is the hardest – people. People are unpredictable, they have strong opinions and unconscious biases. Many people in your organisation have more power than you, yet they are wrong just as often. In this illuminating talk from Mind the Product San Francisco 2017 Janna Bastow, Co-Founder of Mind the Product and Co-Founder and CEO of ProdPad, shares her own stories of dealing with people, and how she handles the toughest part of the job.”
Key Learnings in My First Year as a PM at Amazon - by Venkatraman Prabhu. “On July 11th 2017, I will complete my first year as a Product Manager at Amazon. It has been a very fruitful year for me from a learning and a professional development standpoint. I have mentioned my key learnings as a PM - I hope that these are helpful to professionals starting out in Product Management roles in Tech companies.”
Product Fail - by Marty Cagan
RICE: Simple prioritization for product managers - by Sean McBride. “RICE is an acronym for the four factors we use to evaluate each project idea: reach, impact, confidence and effort.”
The Product Management Hierarchy of Needs - by Joe Dempsey. “Successful products can come from seemingly nonexistent problems e.g. over 75 million Tamagotchis have been sold ‘just for fun’, but remember, it’s harder to sell a vitamin than a painkiller.”
Top 7 Agile Tips I Learnt as a Product Manager (Video) - by Benjamin Mitchell. “Many people have experienced using Agile approaches within teams to deliver more working software, but what can be learnt from combing these approaches with Product Development? This talk will cover the top seven hard-earned tips I learnt…”
What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager - by Julia Austin. “As an aspiring PM, there are three primary considerations when evaluating the role: Core Competencies, Emotional Intelligence (EQ), and Company Fit.”
INSPIRED: How to Create Products Customers Love - by Marty Cagan
Intercom on Product Management (Free book) - by Intercom. “Drawing from some of the best posts on our blog, Intercom on Product Management offers guidance on the tough decisions you need to make as a PM.”
The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development - by Donald G. Reinertsen