Toolbox

As a product manager, I believe it is important to develop a “toolbox.” Doing so enables you to apply the right tool to the right situation. Below are resources that I return to periodically, to remind myself of best practices and to improve my technique, as well as readings that have changed my perspective and influenced the way I practice the craft.

Career | Product Management | People Management

Growing your Career

Interviewing for a PM opportunity 🙌
Book | Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job

PM Career Ladder 🧗‍♀️
Book | Cracking the PM Career

Honing your Skills 💬
Book | Thanks for the Feedback

Growing your Skills

Building Great Products 🛠
Book | Inspired: How to Create Tech Products People Love
Book | Lean UX

Crafting a Product Vision ⛰
Talk | Inspiring with a Product Vision by Ebi Atawodi

Setting OKRs 🎯
Book | Measure What Matters

Design 🎨
Book | The Design of Everyday Things
Book | Good Services: How to design services that work
Book | How to Use Graphic Design to...

Engineering 👩‍💻
Book | Google SRE Book
Book | Production-Ready Microservices

Working as a Team 💪
Article | What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team
Resource | Atlassian Team Playbook

Platform Product Management 🏗
Article | What I talk about when I talk about platforms
Talk | Platform Product Management: Changing What’s Possible by Lisa Kamm

Growing as a People Manager

Being a People Manager 🤗
Book | Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility
Book | The Making of a Manager
Book | An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of engineering management
Article | Core Needs: BICEPS

Onboarding New Team Members 👋
Article | Questions for our first 1:1

Helping your Team Grow 🌱
Article | The Power of Performance Reviews: Use This System to Become a Better Manager
Article | Creating a feedback routine

Distributed & Remote Work 💻
Article | A primer on managing remotely
Article | The future of work is written