11 Tools to Use as a Technical Product Manager

Group Chat & Notifications Project Management Communication

Zoom Landing Page
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Zoom

Equip your team with tools designed to collaborate, connect, and engage with teammates and customers, no matter where you’re located, all in one platform.
Pricing:
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $15.99 / Monthly (Pro - Great for Small Teams)
Zoom gets an honorable mention for being there for us when we needed to make calls with low internet bandwidth. We use Zoom for video communications as a distributed team.

#Video Conferencing #Phone System #Group Chat & Notifications 195 social mentions
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Trello

Infinitely flexible. Incredibly easy to use. Great mobile apps. It's free. Trello keeps track of everything, from the big picture to the minute details.
Pricing:
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $12.5 / Monthly (Per user - Business Class)
Good ol'Trello for product management had to make the cut. Trello is my favorite tool to manage our Kanban boards and task delegation for several reasons. This includes its clean interface and rich integrations.

#Project Management #Task Management #Productivity 231 social mentions
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Slack

A messaging app for teams who see through the Earth!

The online office. Slack enables team communications in channels, direct messages, and group messages. Slack is a useful tool for teams to work effectively, featuring an excellent interface and rich text editor to communicate efficiently.

#Communication #Group Chat & Notifications #Chat 208 social mentions
GitHub Landing Page
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GitHub

Originally founded as a project to simplify sharing code, GitHub has grown into an application used by over a million people to store over two million code repositories, making GitHub the largest code host in the world.
Pricing:
- Open Source
GitHub is a platform to manage software development. As a lean distributed team, everything in development happens here, and as a Technical Product Manager, understanding the different parts cannot be overemphasized. You probably don't need to know the inner technical workings and features; however, making commits, pulling, pushing, making pull requests, and issues are some fundamentals you need to know.

#Code Collaboration #Git #Version Control 2041 social mentions
Excalidraw Landing Page
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Excalidraw

Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Design-focused Product managers would probably be skewed to using Figma and Sketch tools to make design mocks and rough sketches. As a technical product manager with little experience creating user interface designs, I found Excalidraw a handy tool to make sketches and rough prototypes of ideas quickly.

#Sketching #Digital Whiteboard #Digital Drawing And Painting 206 social mentions
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draw.io

Online diagramming application
Pricing:
- Open Source
Draw.io is one tool I find super useful when communicating ideas to stakeholders. Draw.io allows you to create flowcharts and diagrams with multiple available elements. With draw.io, I'm able to make user and process flow diagrams in minutes.

#Diagrams #Flowcharts #Wireframing 714 social mentions