Reposted by Paul Crosby Product ManagerMPR News @mprnews.org · 06/10/2026All day today: IT'S NEW MEMBER DAY. Make your first-ever donation OR start your first-ever sustaining monthly gift -- and MPR News Members will match your generosity dollar for dollar. Make your gift now through the link in our bio. Give here: on.mpr.org/mprnewsfalld... 042
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Early voting this year. Proud to vote! 041
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Somewhere 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... 010
Reposted by Paul Crosby Product ManagerHeather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I'm in love.youtube.com2026: Time for the MidtermsYouTube video by Hamilton 15040821906
Reposted by Paul Crosby Product ManagerMPR News @mprnews.org · 15/09/2026Today 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.mprnews.orgThe voting process: Answers to your voting and election questions in MinnesotaMidterm 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... 0229
Reposted by Paul Crosby Product ManagerPatton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Apparently 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. 15303973916122
Reposted by Paul Crosby Product Managerrandy silver @randysilver.outofowls.com · 29/07/2026this is the one where we discuss the Makers Manifesto - Makers Manifesto — Principles for making great products makersmanifesto.orgshare.googleMakers Manifesto — Principles for making great productsCore principles for how to make great products in an AI-driven world, created by a global group of cross-disciplinary experts and operators. 011
Reposted by Paul Crosby Product Manageromgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 08/06/2026Rare “White Auroras” spotted over Norway.🤩 88102301626
Reposted by Paul Crosby Product ManagerGovernor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/06/2026Getting the work done. 28986133
Reposted by Paul Crosby Product ManagerMinnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 06/06/2026Internationally 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 413428
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026When 2 roadmaps mean zero success crosbypaul.substack.com/p/when-two-r...crosbypaul.substack.comWhen Two Roadmaps Means Zero ResultsHey there, 010
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026The Product Team Failure Nobody Talks About crosbypaul.substack.com/p/step-7-the...crosbypaul.substack.comStep 7: The Product Team Failure Nobody Talks AboutYou built your team well. 000
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Product Managers: Stop building the wrong things - deconstruct product value into the backlog crosbypaul.substack.com/p/deconstruc...crosbypaul.substack.comDeconstruct Product Value Into a Backlog — And Build the Chain That Makes Delivery TrustworthyNine steps into the product-centric transformation framework, most organizations have built impressive scaffolding. 000
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Here'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/...medium.comHow One Team Stopped Building the Wrong ThingsIf your product backlog is full and your product outcomes are flat, the problem is probably not your team’s execution capacity. It is the… 020
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Can’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. 020
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Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 10/04/2026I keep hearing Yoda’s voice when I read this 😂 000
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Check point in your journey to product centric. crosbypaul.substack.com/p/the-founda... #productcentric #productmanagement #producttransformationcrosbypaul.substack.comThe 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. 110
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Here Is How to Actually Design Your Team Topology — Not Just Read About It crosbypaul.substack.com/p/step-6-her... #productmanagement #teamtopologies #productcentriccrosbypaul.substack.comStep 6: Here Is How to Actually Design Your Team Topology — Not Just Read About ItThe 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. 010
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Using Value Streams to design product teams - it's step 6 in the product transformation journey. #productmanagement #producttransformation #productstrategy www.linkedin.com/pulse/step-6...linkedin.comStep 6: How to Use Your Value Stream to Design Teams That Actually DeliverIf 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 ... 010
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026The reality is organizations don’t need to be 100% product centric…here’s where product centric folks get it wrong. substack.com/@crosbypaul/...substack.comCrosby Paul (@crosbypaul)The reality is organizations don’t need to be 100% product centric…here’s where product centric folks get it wrong. 010
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Got the product catalog done? Here’s the next step . substack.com/@crosbypaul/...substack.comThe First Thing to Do After You Finish Your Product CatalogA few weeks ago I was on a call with a product leader at a large healthcare organization who had just finished something genuinely hard. 010
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026The architecture dependency map is something every prodict manager needs. This is why. substack.com/@crosbypaul/...substack.comThe Map Your Product Catalog Has Been Waiting ForA few months ago I was on a call with a product leader who had done everything right. 010
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Lets talk product centric transformation substack.com/@crosbypaul/...substack.comThe Foundations Are Complete. Now Comes the Part Nobody Plans For.I want to be direct about something that most transformation frameworks leave out. 010
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 10/03/2026It started as a product catalog and gree into something so much more powerful. substack.com/@crosbypaul/...substack.comYou 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. 000
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Prodcut Value Streams are worth the effort substack.com/@crosbypaul/...substack.comThe Hardest Part of Value Stream Mapping Is Not the MapLast issue I walked through how to build your first product value stream — the five steps, the two-hour session, the findings you should expect. 010
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Howa your product value stream today? open.substack.com/pub/crosbypa...open.substack.comYou 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. 000
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 03/03/2026How to get your tech and products aligned substack.com/@crosbypaul/...substack.comWhen Product-Tech Alignment Breaks Down, Here Is How to Rebuild ItI want to talk about what happens when the alignment work fails. 000
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 03/03/2026You ve got the product catalog and the architecture dependency map but there is one more thing you need substack.com/@crosbypaul/...substack.comThe Map Your Product Catalog Has Been Waiting ForA few months ago I was on a call with a product leader who had done everything right. 000
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 12/02/2026I just can’t even believe this is real…but it’s real. 191
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 06/02/2026substack.com/@rawstory/no...substack.comRaw 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! 100
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 14/01/2026In 5 years, the competitive difference won't be who has the smartest PMs. Both sides will. The difference will be who can see their entire product ecosystem and move cohesively within it. What's the visibility gap in your organization? bit.ly/4qq3egibit.lyThe 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. 010
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 14/01/2026We talk about empowering PMs: give them autonomy, trust, decision-making authority. But we often do this while keeping them blind to their own organization's product landscape. That's not empowerment. That's empowerment with one hand while constraining with the other. Thread (5/6) 120
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Novice chess players focus on their piece and immediate threats. Expert chess players see the entire board. Most PMs are playing chess while only seeing three squares in front of them. Visibility isn't about control. It's about playing the whole game. Thread (4/6) 100
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 14/01/2026PMs who rebuild something that already exists is operating without full information. Every missed partnership opportunity = invisible constraint. Every strategic decision made in isolation = organizational invisibility at work. Product visibility isn't bureaucracy. It's empowerment. Thread (3/6) 100
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 14/01/2026A mid-level PM was building a customer onboarding feature. One hallway conversation revealed: her organization had already built that same capability 4 different ways across 4 different product lines. She had no idea. She was optimizing locally while blind to the bigger picture. Thread (2/6) 100
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Here'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 #productmanagementbit.lyThe 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. 110
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Finished 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/...medium.comThe 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. 010
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026When business and technology speak the same language about products: ✓ Portfolio clarity improves ✓ Prioritization gets faster ✓ Resource allocation becomes transparent ✓ Cross-functional collaboration actually works ✓ Cycle times compress Product alignment is a competitive advantage. 010
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026We didn't impose a definition. We co-created one. Define: 1️⃣ The Product = customer outcome 2️⃣ The Platform = technical systems enabling it 3️⃣ Dependencies = organizational functions required Simple. Collaborative. Shared. Portfolio planning went from 2-3 weeks to 1 week. 5/6 110
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026The moment that captures it perfectly: Business: "We need to modernize the Prior Authorization Product." Technology: "Which of the four backend systems are you talking about?" Silence. Business thought: one product. Technology knew: four tightly coupled systems. 4/6 100
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Technology teams saw products as architecture: "Our products are: XYZ API, rules engine, data warehouse, audit logging infrastructure." They understood constraints, dependencies, data flows. But ask them why it matters to customers? No answer. That’s the second half of the problem. 3/6 100
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026Business saw products as outcomes: “Retirement Investment Product" = capability that helps investors save for retirement. They could articulate business value. They understood customer impact. But ask them which systems actually implement it? That’s the first half of the problem. 2/6 100
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026The 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/...medium.comYour Business and Technology Teams Are Talking About Different ProductsWe’re all saying product, but we aren’t talking about the same thing. 110
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 23/12/2025The 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 000
Paul Crosby Product Manager @irishbearguy.bsky.social · 23/12/2025The 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 000