Large selection of useful resources for product managers

We in the Miro product team pay a lot of attention to get the necessary and useful knowledge. As you know, a huge amount of resources and there is no lack of information. The most important thing is to choose what to read. We looked at and tried a lot of resources, gathered for ourselves an internal base of useful things, and then decided that it was important to share this with the community.

Below is a large list of channels, blogs and books, useful for product managers, which I read and recommend: about product management, entrepreneurship, management. If there is something well complementing this list, well in the comments.


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Favorites

Title	Why is it worth reading
Good product manager, Bad Product Manager, Ben Horowitz	Classic essay on grocery thinking. Read for inspiration. Leadership
Be a great product leader	Another classic essay about leadership and responsibility of product managers. Leadership
Intercom on Product Management	Exhaustive book about the grocery approach from Intercom. Strategy, practice
SaaS metrics 2.0 - A guide to measuring and improving what matters	Detailed article about the most important SaaS-metrics. SaaS, metrics, growth
Tao product manager at Profi.ru + Checklist of educational content for PM from IT-Agency	A good selection of resources about the knowledge and skills of the product manager. List

Telegram channels in Russian

Title	Why is it worth reading
Make sense	A good selection of Russian product experience and translated articles from Yuri Ageyev and the Product Sense conference. Food processes, practices, conference materials
No Flame No Game	Anna Buldakova's channel, PdM at Facebook, ex-PdM at Intercom. Food processes and practices
How I Met Your Product	Ivo Dimitrov Channel, CPO at Modulbank. Food processes and practices
Product design digest	Yuri Vetrov Channel, Design Director at Mail.ru. Product design
Dark side	Arkady Moreynis Canal. Startups, grocery thinking
Glavred	Maxim Ilyakhov's channel on how to write better. Writing skills
Epic Growth	Case studies and best practices on product growth and marketing from Epic Growth Conference. Startups, grocery marketing
Ponchik	Good posts about thinking, product design, personal efficiency from Alexey Ivanov, Product Designer at Directly. Food Design, Psychology
Design & Productivity	A channel on product design and productivity from Kostya Gorsky, Design Lead at Intercom. Grocery design, grocery thinking, productivity
Zamesin	Ivan Zameshin's channel on product management, customer development and product trends. Product management, startups

English blogs

Title	Why is it worth reading
Hiten shah blog	Blog from the creator of three SaaS companies: Crazy Egg , KISSmetrics , Quick Sprout . Shares a selection of interesting articles in weekly letters. Food processes, practices, cases
Roman pichler	Roman Pichler is an expert in food management, specializing in digital products. He has over 15 years of experience in training product managers and product owners and in helping companies build successful product management. Writes on various topics, including about building products, Scrum and Agile. Food processes, practices, Scrum and Agile
David Skok	An excellent collection of SaaS in general, metrics, growth and scaling of the business. SaaS, growth, business scaling
Jason fried	Blog CEO Basecamp, co-author of Getting Real, Remote, REWORK. A good selection of essays about No bullshit product approach and teamwork. Leadership, startup thinking, performance, teamwork
Brian balfour and Reforge	Excellent articles on product growth from CEO Reforge and former vice president of growth at Hubspot. Product growth
Marty Cagan an SVPG	Silicon Valley Pioneer Food Blog. Startups, grocery thinking
Product talk	Teresa, Product Talk author and product search coach, helps teams gain valuable information from client interviews, conduct effective product experiments and manage results that create value for customers and businesses. It teaches teams to link research and product solutions, instilling confidence that they are on the right track. Recent clients include CarMax, Snagajob, Spotify and Tesco. Product management, customer development
Ken norton	Ken is a senior operating partner at GV , he manages investment operations and provides product and technical support to GV portfolio companies. GV, established in 2009 as Google Ventures, is a venture division of Alphabet, Inc. Ken has worked closely with hundreds of GV portfolio companies, including Uber, Nest, Slack, Stripe, Gusto, Foundation Medicine and Flatiron Health. Product management, grocery thinking
Eric Ries	A good article about the growth from the author Lean startup. Startups, Product Growth, Thrifty Startup
Andrew Chen	Detailed essays about startups, growth, metrics and network effects. Startups, product growth
Ash maurya	A good collection of articles on creating innovative products. StarTapes, product growth, thrifty startup
Nir eyal	Understanding customer behavior, mailing. Psychology
Steve blank	Collection of essays on the assembly and launch of products from the main evangelist of client development methodology, Steve Blank. Startups, customer development
Mind the product	Articles and videos from the largest grocery conference. Grocery thinking, processes, practices
Product School	A good collection of examples and tips for product managers. Grocery thinking, processes, practices
Product coalition	The world's largest free PdM community. More than 250,000 readers. 2000+ articles. 300+ authors. 3000+ participants in Slack. Grocery thinking, processes, practices

Resources

Crunchbase	Company profiles, deals.
Angellist	Company profiles, search for candidates.
Useronboard	Onboarding cases of various companies.
Latka SaaS database	Comparison of startup metrics.
Similarweb	Traffic analysis
Really good emails	Inspiring examples of mailings.

Company Blogs

Intercom	Project management, product design.
Slack	Teamwork, collaboration.
Atlassian	Teamwork, agile, product development.
Amplitude	Analytics, data-informed culture.
Pendo	Understanding the consumer, product management reports.
First round	Startups, product growth.
Invision	Grocery design.
GoPractice	Product growth analytics.

Podcasts about product management and startups

Product Sense Podcast (Rus)
Inside intercom
a16z
The top
The week in startups
The product podcast
Masters of Scale
The startup chat

Books

Title	Why is it worth reading
Mindset carol dweck	Motivation and inspiration. After decades of research, the world-famous psychologist at Stanford University, Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., discovered a simple but revolutionary idea: the power of thought. In this remarkable book, she shows how success in school, work, sports, art, and almost all areas of human activity can significantly affect how we think about our talents and abilities. People with a fixed mindset — setting on a given — have less chance of success than people setting on growth — those who believe that abilities can develop. Mindset will tell how great parents, teachers, managers, and athletes can use this idea to reach new heights. Food processes, practices, cases
Lean Startup, Eric Ries	Do one important thing: make better business decisions faster. By implementing principles from lean manufacturing and agile development to the innovation process, Lean Startup helps companies succeed in a business full of risk. This book will tell you how. Startups, product growth
Scrum, Jeff Sutherland	A good basic and inspiring book about Scrum. For those who believe that there should be a more flexible and efficient way to cope with tasks and tasks, here is a brilliant example: a book that makes you think about leadership and management that changes our way of life. Agile, processes
Inspired. How to create products people love Marty Cagan	Basic instructions for product managers. A well-structured view of all processes and methods. Product management, practice
Hooked, Nir Eyal, Ryan Hoover	Why do some products attract widespread attention while others fail? What makes us interact with the product based only on the habit? Is there a pattern of how technology clings us? Nir answers these and other questions, explaining the hook model — a four-step process built into the products of many successful companies to elusively encourage customer behavior. Through successive “connection cycles”, these products achieve their ultimate goal — to return users again and again, without relying on expensive advertising or aggressive mailings. Consumer psychology
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman	In the international bestseller translated into Russian as “Think slowly ... Solve quickly”, Daniel Kahneman, a well-known psychologist and Nobel Prize winner in economics, introduces us to an innovative outlook and explains the two systems that control our thinking. The first is fast, intuitive and emotional; the second is slower, more thoughtful and more logical. Avoiding overconfidence in corporate strategies, how to explain our cognitive biases to aspects of life, from stock market games to planning the next vacation, can all be explained by knowing how the two systems shape our judgments and decisions. Psychology
Mom test	Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money and nerves. They say that you shouldn't ask your mom if your business is a good idea because she loves you and can lie. This is technically true, but not quite true. You generally should not ask whether your business is a good idea. This is a bad question, and everyone will deceive you. In fact, no one is obliged to tell you the truth - you need to understand what to do right, on your own. Consumer psychology, customer development
Sprint, Jake Knapp	The unique five-day process of transition from problem to prototype from three design partners from Google Ventures. Companies that invest in Google Ventures face big questions every day: where is it important to focus and where to start? What will ideas look like in real life? How many meetings and discussions do you need to make sure that the right solution is found? Business owners and investors want their companies and the people who manage them to be ready to answer these questions - and quickly. And now there is a sure way to solve their problems and test solutions: sprint. Product design, product growth
Make time, Jake Knapp	The Make Time book is not about performance, and not about how to perform more tasks. It does not offer unrealistic solutions, such as giving up a smartphone or social networks. Everything does not come down to a radical restructuring of your lifestyle; on the contrary, we are talking about small changes in your environment in order to free yourself from constant employment and distraction. Be sure to read to anyone who has ever thought: “If there were more hours in the day ...”, Make Time will help you to stop responding passively to the demands of the modern world and begin to deliberately find time for things that matter. Productivity
Zero to One, Peter Thiel	The book presents an optimistic view of the future of progress in America and a new look at innovation: it begins with what it teaches to ask questions that will help you discover value in unexpected places. Startups, grocery thinking, product growth
Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey A. Moore, Regis McKenna	Learn what divides the first users of the product and those who came after, with the mainstream, as well as how to bridge this gap. Startups
HBR 10 must reads “On strategy”, “On Emotional Intelligence”	A good collection of articles on the most important topics: leadership, coaching and many others. Strategy, Psychology
High Output Management, Andy Grove	The basic book on managing people. Management
The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christensen	The Innovator Dilemma is a revolutionary business book that has forever changed corporate America. Based on a truly radical idea - that great companies can fail precisely because they are doing everything right - this best-selling Wall Street Journal, Business Week and New York Times Business is one of the most provocative and important business books ever written. Entrepreneurs, managers and CEOs ignore her wisdom and warnings at their own risk. Startups, grocery thinking
Ben Horowitz	Co-founder Andreessen Horowitz and one of the most respected and experienced entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley offers important tips for creating and launching a startup - practical wisdom to solve the most difficult problems that are not told in business schools. Managing people, startups, growth
Creativity Inc., Ed Catmull	Witty book about creativity in business from the co-founder of the studio Pixar Animation. Creativity, Inc. - This is a book for managers who want to bring their employees to a new height, a guide for those who strive for originality, and the first ever trip with full access to the Pixar Animation management center, where some of the most successful films in history were created. In essence, this is a book about how to create a creative culture, but, as Ed Catmall himself says, “this is an expression of ideas that embody all the best in us”. Management
Radical Candor, Kim Scott	Radical Candor is a fairly simple idea: to be a good boss, you must take personal care at the moment you are challenged. Without caring, you create an unpleasant experience and aggression; caring without offering complex tasks is destructive sympathy. When you do neither of these things, it is manipulative insincerity. This simple structure can help you build better relationships at work and fulfill three key responsibilities as a leader: creating a culture of feedback (praise and criticism), creating a cohesive team and achieving results that you are proud of. Radical Candor offers a guide for those who are confused or exhausted by a manual written for bosses and those who manage bosses. Based on many years of experience, the author provides useful lessons for the reader; he shows managers how to succeed, while maintaining humanity, find meaning in their work and create an environment in which people love their work and their colleagues. Management, feedback
The Goal, Eli Goldratt	The exciting, fast-moving thriller-style narrative of The Goal is changing management thinking around the world. This is a book that you can recommend to your friends, colleagues, even bosses - but not competitors. Management
Zappos: Delivering happiness, Tony Hseih	Zappos CEO talks about various lessons he has learned from business and life: from creating a worm farm to a pizza business, through LinkExchange, Zappos, and more. This realistic story shows how a completely different kind of corporate culture is a powerful model for success, and how, by focusing on the happiness of the people around you, you can significantly increase your own. Culture, customer happiness