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Paul Crosby Product Manager

@irishbearguy.bsky.social
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Transforming organizations into top performing product centric organizations. Fortune 100 product manager and consultant. Product coach, product manager, thought leader, speaker, author. #productmanagement

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 06/10/2026
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Feathered Stone @stonefeathers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Early voting this year. Proud to vote!
I voted sticker from early voting.
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Somewhere between the daily fire drill and my third cup of coffee, I realized something important: every product outcome roadmap will eventually betray you. At some point, you will have to tear that beautiful roadmap to pieces and rebuild it. www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-t...
Tear up that product outcome roadmap and stop treating it like it's the last life raft on the Titanic.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm in love.
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2026: Time for the Midterms
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MPR News @mprnews.org · 15/09/2026
Today is National Voter Registration Day. According to Secretary of State Steve Simon’s office, it was started in 2012 to serve as a nationwide nonpartisan promotion of voter registration. Need to register? Here’s our FAQ on what you need to know.
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The voting process: Answers to your voting and election questions in Minnesota
Midterm Election Day is approaching quickly. Here are answers to some frequently asked questions about the upcoming election. Learn more about when and where to vote, how to register, voting early and...
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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Smartest kid in the class
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randy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 29/07/2026
this is the one where we discuss the Makers Manifesto - Makers Manifesto — Principles for making great products makersmanifesto.org
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Makers Manifesto — Principles for making great products
Core principles for how to make great products in an AI-driven world, created by a global group of cross-disciplinary experts and operators.
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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Rare “White Auroras” spotted over Norway.🤩
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/06/2026
Getting the work done.
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 06/06/2026
Internationally acclaimed artist Saype chose Minneapolis as the first U.S. city for his “Beyond Walls” project, saying residents have shown “to the rest of the world how people can be resilient, how we can create bridges between people to create a bright future.” 🎥: Amanda Anderson
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
When 2 roadmaps mean zero success crosbypaul.substack.com/p/when-two-r...
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When Two Roadmaps Means Zero Results
Hey there,
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The Product Team Failure Nobody Talks About crosbypaul.substack.com/p/step-7-the...
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Step 7: The Product Team Failure Nobody Talks About
You built your team well.
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Product Managers: Stop building the wrong things - deconstruct product value into the backlog crosbypaul.substack.com/p/deconstruc...
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Deconstruct Product Value Into a Backlog — And Build the Chain That Makes Delivery Trustworthy
Nine steps into the product-centric transformation framework, most organizations have built impressive scaffolding.
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Here's how one team stopped building the wrong things. A backlog built from a validated decomposition chain is not just better organized — it produces fundamentally different team behavior. medium.com/@paulcrosby/...
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How One Team Stopped Building the Wrong Things
If your product backlog is full and your product outcomes are flat, the problem is probably not your team’s execution capacity. It is the…
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Can’t stop stupid. You’ll wind up playing their game. They made themselves look foolish and you don’t need to stand by a fool. Can’t fix stupid. They don’t want insight and change. They picked a side and will stay with it no matter the outcome.
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Beth Humphreys 🌺 @producrgrl.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
🌑🌑🌑
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Check point in your journey to product centric. crosbypaul.substack.com/p/the-founda... #productcentric #productmanagement #producttransformation
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The Foundations Are Behind You. Here Is What You Are Actually Capable of Now.
I have been thinking about what to call the moment after the foundational work is done.
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Here Is How to Actually Design Your Team Topology — Not Just Read About It crosbypaul.substack.com/p/step-6-her... #productmanagement #teamtopologies #productcentric
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Step 6: Here Is How to Actually Design Your Team Topology — Not Just Read About It
The OTT design exercise uses the completed value stream as a stage-by-stage design input, asking four questions at each stage to identify which team type should own the work.
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Using Value Streams to design product teams - it's step 6 in the product transformation journey. #productmanagement #producttransformation #productstrategy www.linkedin.com/pulse/step-6...
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Step 6: How to Use Your Value Stream to Design Teams That Actually Deliver
If your teams are constantly waiting on each other, handing work across boundaries that nobody designed intentionally, and watching release timelines stretch in ways nobody can explain — this article ...
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The reality is organizations don’t need to be 100% product centric…here’s where product centric folks get it wrong. substack.com/@crosbypaul/...
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The reality is organizations don’t need to be 100% product centric…here’s where product centric folks get it wrong.
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Got the product catalog done? Here’s the next step . substack.com/@crosbypaul/...
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The First Thing to Do After You Finish Your Product Catalog
A few weeks ago I was on a call with a product leader at a large healthcare organization who had just finished something genuinely hard.
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The architecture dependency map is something every prodict manager needs. This is why. substack.com/@crosbypaul/...
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The Map Your Product Catalog Has Been Waiting For
A few months ago I was on a call with a product leader who had done everything right.
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Lets talk product centric transformation substack.com/@crosbypaul/...
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The Foundations Are Complete. Now Comes the Part Nobody Plans For.
I want to be direct about something that most transformation frameworks leave out.
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
It started as a product catalog and gree into something so much more powerful. substack.com/@crosbypaul/...
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You Did Not Set Out to Build an Operating Model. But That Is What You Built.
I want to talk about a specific kind of moment.
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Prodcut Value Streams are worth the effort substack.com/@crosbypaul/...
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The Hardest Part of Value Stream Mapping Is Not the Map
Last issue I walked through how to build your first product value stream — the five steps, the two-hour session, the findings you should expect.
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Howa your product value stream today? open.substack.com/pub/crosbypa...
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You Built the Value Streams. Here Is How to Keep Them From Becoming Shelf Documents.
I want to tell you about the second time I built a set of product value streams.
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
How to get your tech and products aligned substack.com/@crosbypaul/...
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When Product-Tech Alignment Breaks Down, Here Is How to Rebuild It
I want to talk about what happens when the alignment work fails.
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
You ve got the product catalog and the architecture dependency map but there is one more thing you need substack.com/@crosbypaul/...
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The Map Your Product Catalog Has Been Waiting For
A few months ago I was on a call with a product leader who had done everything right.
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
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Raw America (@rawstory)
THIS IS GREAT: Sir Ian McKellen destroys Trump on Colbert last night by performing a Shakespeare monologue from Sir Thomas More. Fits the historical moment exactly. Make sure this gets around!
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Here's a question I rarely hear asked in product management: What information do your product managers actually use to make decisions every day? Not what they theoretically have access to. What they actually use. The answer reveals everything. Thread (1/6) bit.ly/4qq3egi #productmanagement
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The Hidden Bottleneck Nobody Talks About: Why Your Product Catalog Is Your Roadmap to…
You probably have no idea how many products your organization actually has.
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Finished my latest article this morning. "The Hidden Bottleneck Nobody Talks About: Why Your Product Catalog Is Your Roadmap to Transformation". Glad the morning coffee kicked in. Check it out on Medium: medium.com/@paulcrosby/...
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The Hidden Bottleneck Nobody Talks About: Why Your Product Catalog Is Your Roadmap to…
You probably have no idea how many products your organization actually has.
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The Definition Problem - Why Business and Technology Can't Agree on Products. Business called them one thing. Technology called them something completely different. Let's take that challenge on: medium.com/@paulcrosby/...
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Your Business and Technology Teams Are Talking About Different Products
We’re all saying product, but we aren’t talking about the same thing.
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The silence holds what noise cannot The soul becomes beautiful in presence of self The froze ice reflecting the stars entire Hands move freely in muses whispers Breath is mine - enough to bloom joy in silence
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The moonlight fractures on the glittering snow Northern wind strips bare the sleeping branches The soul settles in crisp, quiet acceptance— one lost, but the great wheel turns again
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Ben Wood @cosmichope.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
'The world has become empty of gods or God. The Christ Being certainly, could never have descended from the universe investigated nowadays through astronomy & astrophysics...Primeval wisdom perceived this world in an altogether different way. It was the body of the divine soul' (Rudolf Steiner)
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a painting of an aurora borealis over a body of water
ALT: a painting of an aurora borealis over a body of water
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Penguin2026™️ @penguin20212.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Feeling festive
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Starting the Christmas session with a light show
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American Scruffy 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇸 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ @scruffygaydc.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep. The more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Luminous mystery, veiled in shimmer Depths that glisten, yet never reveal Light dances upon the edge of knowing All transforms beneath the silver moon’s gaze
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Gestures of kindness always brighten my day. Add coffee and it’s even better.
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Cloudy and joyous pride 🏳️‍🌈
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Hands up 🙌 🏳️‍🌈
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