Sources of insight and inspiration used by GOV.UK Product Managers

A list that came out of a GOV.UK Product Manager community hour I facilitated recently.

Blogs

• Putting people first
• Inside Intercom
• Nielsen Norman
• Mountain Goat software
• John Cutler
• Melissa Perri
• DEV
• Mind the Product
• Product Hunt (also, the Product Hunt browser extension)
• GoSquared
• Silicon Valley Product Group
• Pivot Product Hits

Books

• About Face – the principles of interaction design
• The Little Black Book
• Step Up Club
• The Design of Everyday Things

Podcasts

• Aurelius Lab
• This is Product Management
• 99 Percent Invisible
• Intercom

Video

• Product School video AMAs

Reading lists

• Simon Cross’s PM essential reading list
• Attack with Numbers
• Ross Ferguson’s PM reading list

Exhibitions

• Design Museum’s Designs of the Year
• Royal College of Arts, Show of the Year

Events

• Product Tank Events
• Lectures, e.g. psychology

Formal guidance on the PM role and product lifecycle

• DDaT skills they need – different levels of PM
• GDS Service Standard
• Service manual
• Braun – 10 principles of good design

People to speak to

• Other Product Managers
• Other teams through internal show and tells
• Other Product Managers on a shared task, e.g. working through 52 weeks of UX together.

Other organisations’ open roadmaps

• Trello
• Monzo

Newsletters

• Exponential View