Best Agile Resources for Product Managers

Why agile matters for product managers

Beyond Agile exists because "doing Agile" and delivering outcomes are not the same claim, and Builders Camp's own practical challenge makes that gap concrete. Members join Loopback, a B2B SaaS company that scaled from 15 to 80 people in eighteen months, in week two with no problem statement handed to them: an engineering lead who calls slipping estimates normal, a QA lead who no longer trusts anything marked "done," and a CPO who runs every agile ceremony correctly while the team still feels slow. The job is to name the dysfunction patterns from raw, contradictory observations, classify whether each is a process, role-clarity, ritual-design, or culture problem, then pick one fix to start under your own authority before a new CPO arrives in four weeks.

That diagnostic instinct is what the bootcamp's single live session and eleven microlessons build, taught through David Pereira's own recorded material on Agile framework selection, agility measurement, and running Agile in remote teams. The certification quiz tests the same idea from a different angle: that Bullshit Management, work that drains energy without adding value, is a named failure mode worth cutting on sight, not something to route around with more process.

What do PMs need to know about Agile frameworks themselves?

• Agile Product Manifesto. A product-focused extension of the original Agile Manifesto's four values, applied specifically to product work rather than software delivery mechanics.
• Introduction to Scrum, Product Compass. A concise video primer on Scrum's actual mechanics, useful as a baseline before reading the essays below on where it goes wrong in practice.

Which essays explain the Product Owner versus Product Manager split?

• Are You Doing Product Management or Bullshit Management?, David Pereira. The essay that named the pattern this bootcamp's certification quiz tests directly: activity that drains a team's energy without producing decisions.
• Difference Between Product Owner and Product Manager Explained, David Pereira. Argues most companies split "what" and "how" across two roles in a way that creates friction neither role asked for.

Where can PMs hear agile dysfunction talked through out loud?

• Product Beats Show, hosted by Magnus Billgren. A product management interview show; this episode covers the Value Engine framework for connecting delivery work to business outcomes.
• Product pitfalls: how to avoid them, David Pereira. A talk on the specific, recurring ways product teams sabotage their own process without noticing.
• Ronny Kohavi on A/B Testing Done Right, Lenny's Podcast. Included here because measuring whether a process change actually worked, rather than assuming it did, is the same discipline Beyond Agile asks PMs to bring to their own rituals.

How Builders Camp teaches agile

Beyond Agile is a one-week bootcamp inside the Product Delivery Specialist Track: 1 live session, 3 hours taught, and 11 self-paced microlessons led by David Pereira on outcome-driven planning, discovery and delivery balance, team topology, and roadmap governance. The certification quiz runs 10 questions covering Kanban's actual focus, the Value Curve as a strategy tool, and what separates healthy Product Review sessions from a stakeholder-approved slide deck. See the Beyond Agile bootcamp for the current self-paced syllabus and start date.