For over 15 years, Paul has been building and collaborating on digital products with fast-growing startups and global brands, including AOL and WMS Gaming. Currently, he's a co-founder of Product Collective, a worldwide community of product people. Members collaborate on Slack, meet at INDUSTRY: The Product Conference, listen to Rocketship.fm, learn at Product Interviews and get a weekly brief that includes best practices in product management. In recent years he led business development at DXY, a leading product design firm in the Midwest, and product innovation at MedCity Media, a publishing startup acquired by Breaking Media in 2015.
How to build a product roadmap everyone understands. Product roadmaps are one more tool at your team’s disposal to communicate what your priorities are at any given time period. However, it’s questionable how best that they can be used. Are…
How to Market the Job-to-be-Done. At Industry last year, Chris Spiek of the Rewired Group gave a Masterclass talk on the Jobs-to-be-Done framework. Many people there were immediately struck with the realization of how important it is. Ourselves included, who have…
What Product VPs At High-Growth Startups Have In Common. “I think that the number one hiring criterion for a vice president of product management should be someone who’s done it before—who has executive-level product leadership experience”. Do most hiring managers of high-growth…
Where do product roadmaps come from? A product roadmap is not just a chronological list of things that your team needs to do. According to Paul Adams at Intercom, it actually consists of a range of new work that needs to…
It’s clear from speaking to many of the product managers who came to Industry last year, that a strong entrepreneurial spirit is shared amongst them. This fact to most won’t be surprising. The role is often sold as being the…
104 questions for product development teams. As we enter into the new year, it certainly helps to be honest with yourself and ask yourself tough questions about whether you’re doing all you can as a Product Manager. Well, here are 104…
A product manager’s new year’s resolutions. Despite the sometimes shallow aspirations that people take on and often set to the side just weeks later, the New Year does bring along potential and new possibilities. As a “product person”, it’s a…
“A camel is a horse formed by committee.” – unknown The need for a product person is often an invisible one. Instead, your company is likely experiencing a range of challenges when shipping a product that are difficult to tackle…
Before you think about building another feature or enhancing the look and feel of your interface to save your flagging product, stop and take a step back. Are you sure that you don’t need to take it around the back of…
