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

• 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/

• 10 Core Principles of Product Development from Aaron Schildkrout http://startupmanagement.org/2013/08/28/10-core-principles-of-product-development-from-aaron-schildkrout/
• Product Backlog Board http://www.romanpichler.com/blog/product-backlog/product-backlog-board/
• Learning from Shipping – Steven Sinofsky has one of the best blogs on PM out there. http://blog.learningbyshipping.com/2013/03/16/using-data-to-inform-strategy/
• Distributed Agile: 10 best practices of scrum teams http://www.agilebuddha.com/agile/distributed-agile10-best-practices-of-successful-teams/
• Don’t make me think – http://nilsdavis.com/2013/09/04/the-pains-of-requirement-chaos-and-dont-make-me-think/
• Mountain Goat Software – Scrum Resources/Posts by Michael Cohn (@mikewcohn) –http://www.mountaingoatsoftware.com/agile/scrum/
• 24 Common Scrum Pitfalls http://www.agileadvice.com/2011/12/05/referenceinformation/24-common-scrum-pitfalls-summarized/
• Definition of Done (DoD). Ideal DoD list includes:  (each section is a subset of the subsequent. e.g. Code is subset of Unit Test): Code->Unit Test -> Functional Tests -> (Regression Test, release notes, performance tests, security tests, release)
• What We Need in a VP of Product Management – Mironov Consulting – http://www.mironov.com/vp-pm/