Paige Costello
VP of Product @ Figma
Leads Figma's Editor group. Previously Head of AI and Core Product at Asana.
βAsk the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics, covering team leadership, product design, and measurement and analysis.β
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βWonderful. Now, I want to know who you talked to, but we'll find out.β
How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)
βYeah, yeah. There's another group that's focused on our process management, but a lot of the core work in project management, core is in my group, and then we have a growth and enterprise scale team.β
How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)
βExactly, and people are better at it than they used to be.β
How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)
βSo I would say our remote days are more impactful than the days we're together where we're getting into the swing of things.β
How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)
βYes. I would encourage you to know your chronotype and to lock that time where you have the most head space to do that work. So, for me, it's mornings.β
How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)
βI'm a morning person, and so I try to make sure that I don't have any meetings before 10:00, sometimes before 11:00, and that's when I do my hardest task for the day.β
How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)
βMy go-to book recommendation for other PMs is inspired by Marty Cagan. I think it's a classic. The other books that I have enjoyed and recommended lately are The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood and ...β
How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)
βOoh, I'm very much enjoying The Diplomat right now, and then TV show or movie. Let's see. I just watched the Fire of Love documentary, which is about a couple who study volcanoes, and that was a great...β
How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)
βI would say though that the advice, bits and bobs, I gave you earlier are absolutely things that I've been thinking about feeding, but I think the page bot would probably say, "Ship it."β
How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)
βYeah, and so you can try the different models. So you can do four, and you play five, and Claude, and a few others. Yeah.β
How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)
βYeah. So no more than three reviews on a given piece of work where people are blocking one approver. If a meeting has more than 10 people on it, we ask the person hosting the meeting to kick out the o...β
How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)
βThe three reviews are three people who are assigned a task to look at something, but only one person is blocking whether it moves to the next stage.β
How to ask the right questions, project confidence, and win over skeptics | Paige Costello (Asana, Intercom, Intuit)