Pick two or three items each week. You do not need to finish the list. Hours are estimates. Every link was checked when this list was made, but sites change. If a link breaks, search for the title.
The weeks match the Developer path. Some items are about GitLab or a cloud provider. Use them to learn the ideas. You may use other tools.
Week 1
Product management & roadmapping
- Product Roadmap Guide: What It Is and How to Create One — Atlassian. Article, about 0.5 h. Shows what a roadmap is and how it links big goals to the work teams do.
- Product Roadmapping Guide & Tips — Productboard. Article, about 0.5 h. Gives a second view of roadmaps, with simple tips on keeping them focused on outcomes.
- Product Roadmaps — Silicon Valley Product Group. Article, about 0.3 h. Explains why a list of features is a weak roadmap and what strong teams do instead.
- Epics (agile epics explained) — Atlassian. Article, about 0.5 h. Defines an epic in plain terms: a big chunk of work split into smaller stories.
User & customer journey mapping, personas
- Customer Journey Maps: When and How to Create Them — Nielsen Norman Group. Article, about 0.3 h. Shows how to draw the steps a customer takes so you can spot where the product lets them down.
- Personas Make Users Memorable — Nielsen Norman Group. Article, about 0.3 h. Teaches how a persona keeps the team thinking about real people, not just features.
GitLab epics & roadmaps
- Epics — GitLab Docs. Docs, about 0.5 h. The official guide to epics, the GitLab tool for grouping issues into one big theme.
- Manage epics — GitLab Docs. Docs, about 0.5 h. Step-by-step instructions to create, edit and organise epics.
Week 2
Product management & roadmapping
- The Alternative to Roadmaps — Silicon Valley Product Group. Article, about 0.3 h. Teaches you to plan around problems to solve, not promised features.
- Are roadmaps ever useful? (talk) — SVPG talk on YouTube. Video, about 0.5 h. A short talk from a famous product leader on when roadmaps help and when they hurt.
User & customer journey mapping, personas
- User Journeys vs. User Flows — Nielsen Norman Group. Article, about 0.2 h. Clears up the difference between a person’s whole journey and one screen-to-screen flow, which is key for front-end developers moving to product thinking.
- What are Personas? — Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF). Article, about 0.5 h. Explains how to build personas from real research.
GitLab epics & roadmaps
- Roadmap — GitLab Docs. Docs, about 0.5 h. Shows how GitLab turns epics into a timeline everyone can see.
- Milestones — GitLab Docs. Docs, about 0.5 h. Explains milestones, the date-based goals that epics and issues roll up into.
Agile & product certifications
- The Scrum Guide — Scrum Guides. Docs, about 1 h. The short official rulebook for Scrum, and the base for the PSPO I exam.
Week 3
GitLab epics & roadmaps
- GitLab University — GitLab. Course, about 4 h. GitLab’s own training site where you can learn the tool by doing.
Azure fundamentals & architecture
- Describe Azure Architecture and Services (AZ-900 learning path) — Microsoft Learn. Course, about 8 h. Walks through the main Azure building blocks your product runs on.
- Azure Front Door Overview — Microsoft Learn. Docs, about 0.5 h. Explains the front entrance that routes web traffic to your app quickly and safely.
- Azure Functions Overview — Microsoft Learn. Docs, about 0.5 h. Shows how small pieces of code run on demand without managing servers.
- What is Azure Logic Apps? — Microsoft Learn. Docs, about 0.5 h. Shows how to connect apps and automate steps with little code.
Week 4
Azure fundamentals & architecture
- Azure Architecture Center — Microsoft Learn. Docs, about 1 h. A library of tested designs that shows how full products are put together.
SaaS architecture
- SaaS and Multitenant Solution Architecture — Microsoft Azure Architecture Center. Docs, about 1 h. Explains how one product can safely serve many customers.
- Architect Multitenant Solutions on Azure — Microsoft Azure Architecture Center. Docs, about 1.5 h. Covers the big choices when many customers share one product.
- SaaS Lens - AWS Well-Architected Framework — Amazon Web Services. Docs, about 1 h. A checklist-style guide on what makes a SaaS product reliable, secure and cost-smart.
- Microservice Architecture pattern — microservices.io. Article, about 0.5 h. Explains splitting one big app into small services, a choice that shapes roadmaps.
