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
- 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
- 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:
- Strategy and Business: Vision, strategy, strategic models, market research, business models, and product portfolio management.
- Execution: Working with goals (e.g., OKRs), managing outcomes, roadmaps, Agile, and Lean.
- People: Building alignment, leadership (leading with the context and culture), and management (coaching, mentoring, hiring).
- Data Analytics: Product analytics, frameworks, AARRR metrics, KPIs, and other techniques (funnel analysis, heatmaps) and data analysis tools.
- Product Discovery: Customer research (interviews, surveys), initial product discovery, continuous product discovery, and essential techniques (Kano model, Opportunity Score, Opportunity Solution Tree, and JTBD).
- Experimentation: Formulating hypotheses, verifying market engagement, working with user prototypes and spikes, A/B testing, and multivariate testing.
- Product Marketing: GTM strategy (e.g., segmentation, positioning, pricing, channels, customer engagement), enabling sales and partners, and planning and executing marketing campaigns.
- Product Growth: Product-led growth, optimizing the entire AARRR funnel, pricing models, and leveraging virality and network effects.
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