last highlighted date: 2024-07-13

Highlights

  • There are more than 100K PM videos on YouTube. Most of them are noise. Top 20 that will teach you more than any $4,976 course: 🧵 #productmanagementprodmgmt https://t.co/Hq15CGPikN
  • 12-Month MBA for PMs (better than any $123K program) Month 1:
    • Introduction: Inspired by Marty Cagan
    • Leadership: Empowered by Marty Cagan and Chris Jones
    • Startups: The Right It by Alberto Savoia Month 2:
    • Business Model Generation by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur
    • Value Proposition Design by Alexander Osterwalder and others
    • Testing Business Ideas by Alexander Osterwalder and David Bland Month 3:
    • Leadership: The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo
    • Teams: Team Topologies by Manuel Pais and Matthew Skelton
    • Setting goals: Radical Focus by Christina Wodtke Month 4:
    • Customer Interviews: The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
    • Product Discovery: Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres
    • Product-Market Fit: The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen Month 5:
    • PLG: Product-Led Growth by Wes Bush
    • Retention: Hooked by Nir Eyal
    • Take the Product-led Certification Course by Pendo with a 100% discount code “learnwithpawel” https://t.co/ozLqUwJQj0 Month 6:
    • Marketing for tech startups: Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore
    • Marketing: LOVED by Martina Lauchengco
    • Growth: Hacking Growth by Sean Ellis (who popularized the North Star Framework) Month 7:
    • Public speaking: Talk Like TED by Carmine Gallo
    • Copywriting: The Copywriter’s Handbook by Robert W. Bly
    • Negotiating: Never Split the Difference by Christopher Voss and Tahl Raz Month 8:
    • Making decisions: Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
    • Effectiveness: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen M. R. Covey
    • Networking: Superconnector by Ryan Paugh and Scott Gerber Month 9:
    • Financial Intelligence: The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
    • Accounting: Accounting for Non-Accountants by Wayne A. Label Month 10:
    • Product Analytics: Lean Analytics by Alistair Croll and Ben Yoskovitz
    • Take the Product Analytics Certification course by Pendo with a 100% discount code “learnwithpawel” https://t.co/9PSVcIIt9J Month 11:
    • JTBD: Jobs-to-be-Done by Tony Ulwick
    • What to build: Escaping the Build Trap by Melissa Perri
    • Building products: Build by Tony Fadell Month 12:
    • Strategy: Playing to Win by Roger Martin
    • Business portfolio: The Invincible Company by Frederic Etiemble, Alan Smith, Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur
    Bonus (recommended):
    • Career: The Ultimate Guide to Getting a PM Job by Aakash Gupta
    • Leading with context: No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings
    • Learning from the best: Working Backwards by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
    • The MBA Pathology according to Marty Cagan: https://t.co/lXRroIUbV3 Plus:
    • 600+ Free PM Learning Resources (books, videos, courses): https://t.co/WdCm1Y3NH2
    • A free PM Skills Assessment: https://t.co/u4JbrQsWU1
    All it takes is to invest 45-60 min/day. P.S. You can network for free on Twitter.
  • In the last 7 months, 12,000+ PMs completed my skill assessments. I identified the key knowledge areas for PMs:
    • Product Owner \ APM
    • Product Manager
    • Senior Product Manager
    • Product Marketing Manager
    • Growth Product Manager
    • Head of Product \ CPO There are 8 knowledge areas:
    1. Strategy and Business: Vision, strategy, strategic models, market research, business models, and product portfolio management.
    2. Execution: Working with goals (e.g., OKRs), managing outcomes, roadmaps, Agile, and Lean.
    3. People: Building alignment, leadership (leading with the context and culture), and management (coaching, mentoring, hiring).
    4. Data Analytics: Product analytics, frameworks, AARRR metrics, KPIs, and other techniques (funnel analysis, heatmaps) and data analysis tools.
    5. Product Discovery: Customer research (interviews, surveys), initial product discovery, continuous product discovery, and essential techniques (Kano model, Opportunity Score, Opportunity Solution Tree, and JTBD).
    6. Experimentation: Formulating hypotheses, verifying market engagement, working with user prototypes and spikes, A/B testing, and multivariate testing.
    7. Product Marketing: GTM strategy (e.g., segmentation, positioning, pricing, channels, customer engagement), enabling sales and partners, and planning and executing marketing campaigns.
    8. Product Growth: Product-led growth, optimizing the entire AARRR funnel, pricing models, and leveraging virality and network effects. 🧵