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Books every new PM should read (in this order)
- Inspired — Marty Cagan. The single best overview of how good product teams work. Start here.
- The Mom Test — Rob Fitzpatrick. How to talk to users and get truth instead of politeness. Short, funny, essential.
- Continuous Discovery Habits — Teresa Torres. The modern playbook for weekly user research alongside delivery.
- Escaping the Build Trap — Melissa Perri. Why shipping features isn’t the job, and what is.
- Cracking the PM Interview — Gayle McDowell & Jackie Bavaro. When you’re ready to apply.
Free tools to practice with
- Figma (free tier) — sketch wireframes; you don’t need to be a designer
- Notion or Google Docs — where your practice PRDs live
- Trello (free) — practice running a real backlog, even for a personal project
- Claude / ChatGPT — rubber-duck your product thinking; ask it to attack your PRD’s weak points
Our templates
The PM Docs Toolkit gives you all 12 core PM documents as fill-in-the-blank templates — the fastest way to go from reading about PM to producing PM work.