Welcome to Funkstop’s Product Management Link List!

I’ve often found myself doing a search on certain aspects of Product management. I generally come across the same articles, and after reading them again, I usually extract a tidbit of information I had forgotten which helps me through a particular challenge.

Rather than go through the pain of constantly searching, I figured I’d compile the various articles that I find useful here. Over the years, I’ve found myself sending these links out to others that I’m mentoring and so I thought it would be useful for others too.

Do you have links that you find useful? If so, please add them to this as well. Let me know your thoughts!

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Strategy/ Vision / Product Definition

(broken link) Positioning Statement http://petereilly.com/you-need-a-positioning-statement

Assessing Product Opportunities http://www.svpg.com/assessing-product-opportunities/

Product Vision Board http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/product-vision/the-product-vision-board/

Ideas come from everywhere – Marissa Mayer — https://www.udemy.com/ideas-come-from-everywhere/

Amazon’s approach http://www.quora.com/What-is-Amazons-approach-to-product-development-and-product-management

Jobs-to-be-done http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/the-iceberg-of-jobs-to-be-done/

Useable yet Useless: Why Every Business Needs Product Discovery: http://alistapart.com/article/usable-yet-useless-why-every-business-needs-product-discovery

Think BIG: The Product Vision exercise : https://www.prodpad.com/2015/03/think-big-the-product-vision-exercise-for-product-managers/

Product Vision Board Explained: http://www.productmanagerclub.com/2015/03/10/product-vision-board/

Dan Olson’s Videos: http://dan-olsen.com/speaking/

<NEW> A 3x3x3 Perspective for getting your Vision, Strategy, and Product aligned https://blog.leanstack.com/a-3x3x3-perspective-for-getting-your-vision-strategy-and-product-aligned-46aaa3b48922

<NEW> Why Build, Measure, Learn – isn’t just throwing things against the wall to see if they work – Steve Blank https://steveblank.com/2015/05/06/build-measure-learn-throw-things-against-the-wall-and-see-if-they-work/

<New> The Theory Underlying Concept Maps and How to Construct and Use Them http://cmap.ihmc.us/docs/theory-of-concept-maps.php

Prioritization / Roadmapping

Product Prioritization by Pandora http://firstround.com/article/This-Product-Prioritization-System-Nabbed-Pandora-More-Than-70-Million-Active-Monthly-Users-with-Just-40-Engineers

MoSCoW (Must, Should, Could, Would) http://toolsforagile.com/blog/archives/46/moscow-as-a-prioritization-and-planning-tool

Agile Product Roadmap http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/product-planning/agile-product-roadmap/

The one cost engineers and product managers don’t consider – http://firstround.com/article/The-one-cost-engineers-and-product-managers-dont-consider

Use cases vs user stories in Agile http://www.boost.co.nz/blog/2012/01/use-cases-or-user-stories/

Techniques for Estimating http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/system/asset/file/15/aep_sample.pdf

User stories Applied, Agile Estimating +Planning -> Mike Cohn

Tuckman Model (Estimation)

Affinity Estimation

Time-boxing Product Discovery http://www.svpg.com/time-boxing-product-discovery

Backlog Refinement (Grooming) (animated video) http://scrumtrainingseries.com/BacklogRefinementMeeting/BacklogRefinementMeeting.htm

Persona template: http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/persona-template-for-agile-product-management/

User Personas: https://www.prodpad.com/how-to-guide/user-personas/

Use Personas to Guide your Content Strategy http://www.htk.co.uk/using-customer-personas-to-guide-your-content-strategy/

Design

<NEW> Google Ventures – Design Sprint https://www.gv.com/sprint/

Framework to build an MVP http://sugoilabs.com/blog/startups/framework-to-build-an-mvp-minimum-viable-product

Product Managers are obsolete – focus on jobs to be done https://jobs-to-be-done.com/product-managers-are-obsolete-focus-on-the-job-to-be-done-a140eb96edae (I don’t actually agree with the title of this)

4 Reasons Human centered design trumps user participation http://www.workingwithjoe.co.uk/user-participation-human-centred-design/

What is UXD and UX – no more misunderstanding https://medium.com/@mikhailbelstar/uxd-vs-ux-59223dac9f41

Operations/Execution — at the end of the day, if you can’t execute, then you are not a PM