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Top Free Resources for Product Management Professionals: Boost Your Skills and Career

Ashley Nader June 19, 2023

Are you a Product Management professional looking to enhance your skills and stay updated with the latest industry trends? Look no further!

I have compiled a comprehensive list of free online resources that will empower you to level up your Product Management game.

From insightful blogs and podcasts to interactive courses and informative books, these resources cover a wide range of topics to help you excel in your career.

Dive into this treasure trove of knowledge and equip yourself with the tools and insights needed to become a standout Product Management professional.

Free Product Management E-Books

  1. Founding Sales

    An advanced, comprehensive guide for startup executives on navigating the challenges and complexities of a rapidly scaling company. PMs can also benefit from the book to better understand the role of the CEO, managing stakeholders, hiring at scale, and strategy.

  2. Shape Up by Basecamp

    An inside look into the unique approach to product development used at Basecamp who interestingly enough uses 6-week cycles without backlogs. Every cycle starts from scratch.

  3. Product Led Growth

    PLG strategy is the root of success, especially for SaaS products. This book starts with Wes explaining the WHY and covers pricing models, customer outcomes, and essential metrics like the ARPU and Churn to get any early PM thinking in the right space.

  4. Product Led Onboarding

    Another great one from Wes and team, but this book focuses on the seamless customer onboarding journey, an essential element of a great Product-Led Growth strategy.

  5. Jobs to Be Done

    In this book, Tony explains disruptive innovation and 4 other growth strategies through a Jobs lens and introduces new ideas, tutorials and templates that can be used to achieve predictable growth.

Free Product Management podcasts

  1. The Product Podcast by Product School

    If you want to master Product Management, then learn from the best. The Product Podcast brings you interviews and actionable advice from the people at the very top!

  2. This Is Product Management by DISQO

    Join over 15,000 weekly listeners to learn from product leaders, authors, and Founders, from companies such as Adobe, Shopify, Viacom, Under Armour, and many more.

  3. Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman

    Award-winning business advice from Silicon Valley and beyond. Iconic CEOs, from Nike to Netflix, Starbucks to Slack, share the strategies that helped them grow from startups into global brands — and to weather crisis when it strikes.

  4. How I Built This with Guy Raz

    In each episode, founders reveal deep, intimate moments of doubt and failure, and share insights on their eventual success. How I Built This is a master-class on innovation, creativity, leadership and how to navigate challenges of all kinds.

Free Product Management online Courses

  1. Product Management by Great Learning School

    This is a comprehensive course that covers all aspects of product management, from the product life cycle to lean manufacturing. Through this course, you'll gain a deep understanding of the product management process and learn how to develop effective product management strategies that can help you develop, launch, and maintain successful products.

  2. Becoming A Product Manager by LinkedIn Learning*

    Free with trial of LinkedIn Learning, this courses covers what does a product manager actually do? What kind of product manager roles are out there, and how do they differ from project management? In this course, get answers to those questions—and more—as you learn about the different tools and techniques needed to successfully coordinate all aspects of product development.

Looking for more ways to learn?

Check out my own online course workbook for breaking into product management.

My course includes sample resumes, interview tips, career resources and continued learning suggestions to jump start your career in product management.

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Ashley Nader is a digital corespondent, creative communicator and innovative thinker from the University of Florida. Her passions include social media, technology, communication and design. For more on how Ashley can help you better your business check out her site specializing in  design, seo and writing. 

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