Product Management Resources

Purpose of Product management
Great product management organizations help a company set product vision and road maps, establish goals and strategy, and drive execution on each product throughout its lifecycle.

Bad product management organizations, in contrast, largely function as project management groups, running schedules and tidying up documents for engineers.

History of Product Management
Modern product management started in 1931 with a memo written by Neil H. McElroy at Procter & Gamble. It started as a justification to hire more people (sound familiar to any product managers out there?) but became a cornerstone in modern thinking about brand management and ultimately product management.