Adam Thomas
Managing Director at Approaching One
Expertise: Product management, strategy, leadership and organizational psychology
Education: University of Maryland Eastern Shore

What can we learn by following our curiosity, embracing the unknown, and creating amidst chaos? 

This is the question that propels Adam Thomas’s career as a technologist, product expert, and all-around thinker and creator. His answer so far? We can learn that our potential is limitless and we have an amazing array of options for living, working, and playing better.  

Seizing every opportunity to dive deep into these topics and more, Adam regularly holds his signature workshop on product strategy, management, and leadership, publishes his newsletter on all things tech- and product-related, and is frequently booked as a speaker on podcasts, conferences, and other forums dedicated to bright ideas and big possibilities. 

Situating the world of products within the contexts of culture and behavioral psychology, Adam breaks down technical subject matter into easy-to-grasp concepts, illuminating the insights that tech leaders, product developers, and brands can use to do more and do better when it comes to their product decisions. 

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What Is Scrum?
Scrum is a product management framework that helps teams break large projects into small chunks in order to practice continuous delivery.
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Time Complexity: What Developers Need to Know
Time complexity is an important concept in computer science, and you need to understand it well in your career as a developer. Here, our expert explains the concept and how to handle it in your work.
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Smoke Testing: An Overview and How-to Guide
Smoke testing is a simple way to check the most important aspect of a product: that it works. This guide will introduce you to its best practices.
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Does Your Team Trust You?
Survival metrics are a great tool to build trust both among your team and, more broadly, for your work throughout your entire company.
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What Do Product Managers Produce?
Product management, unlike many other technical disciplines, doesn’t create a discrete output. So, what should you be spending your time on?
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To Stay Agile, Don’t Let Your Product Team Get Trapped in a Loop
To ensure your product team is truly following the Agile Manifesto, you have to give yourselves time to adjust. That can’t happen when you’re stuck in a positive feedback loop.
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What Does a Product Manager Actually Do?
Product management requires flexibility and adaptability in its practitioners. So, with so much nuance, how do we define what product managers actually do?
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How to Conduct Better Product Management Interviews
Hiring is one of the most important parts of product leadership. Use these principles to make sure you’re landing the best talent.
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As Product Manager, What Story Should You Tell?
As product manager, how do you take your plans from theory to action? Simple: Tell the right story.
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What Do You Do When Product and Customer Success Won’t Play Nice?
Too often, customer success and product teams treat each other like adversaries. Here’s how to fix that.
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Are You Asking Too Many Questions?
Asking good questions is an important part of product management, but we can easily fall into a trap where too many questions obscure our goal. To focus your team and avoid this problem, learn to create eigenquestions.
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Want to Make Better Products? Build Better Case Studies With This Method.
Case studies are one of the most useful items in the product management toolkit. To build effective ones, you need to follow a simple but vital set of guidelines.