Join us Thursday, Nov. 10th as we return to Pedro’s Restaurant & Cantina in Santa Clara, CA (yes, in-person!) for a casual, after-work social. Catch up with each other on trends, ideas, and some after-work “therapy” with your PM friends! Thank you for your continued support of SVPMA.
As busy product professionals, we sometimes struggle to focus on career development and manage the growth and progression of our own careers. Career management during periods of high change and uncertainty also presents additional unique challenges. The past couple of years have certainly presented more change and uncertainty than any year in recent memory. During…
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Speakers Summary Join Stanford professor, early Google engineer, and co-author of System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot, Mehran Sahami, and author of the upcoming satirical corporate thriller, Bit Flip, and Silicon Valley tech veteran, Mike Trigg, in a conversation about the growing identity crisis many tech workers feel. With…
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Topic What’s Your Shape? A Product Manager’s Guide to Growing Yourself and Your Team Speaker Ravi Mehta, Co-Founder and CEO of Scale Higher Summary Product Management is a highly demanding role that requires PMs to master a diverse range of competencies. In this talk, we will discuss the 12 competencies that define the role of…
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Topic Five Reasons Why Your Product is Not Ready for AI… And How To Get There Speaker Ryan Withop, Director of Analytics & Growth, RingCentral Summary If you spend any amount of time reading about high-tech, it seems as if everyone has artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) as their secret sauce. The reality…
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Summary Startups are brutal. For many startups, the most grueling part is fundraising. The consequences of under or overestimating this challenge can be fatal. Teams that don’t account for creating fundable milestones will die, while those that over rotate on one-off demos, risk losing time and burning out their teams. The most skilled founders and…
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During our session, Ron and Tom will explore what being truly “Agile” looks like, for your product development as well as your business teams. They will cover what is in it for products, customers, and your organization as a whole, and what we as leaders can do to spark the best outcomes from our teams.…
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Learn to create an outcomes-based roadmap using a bottoms-up approach and a top-down approach with affiliated business metrics. Join us via Zoom for Jessica’s talk to learn how to connect product development to the corporate strategy. When Wednesday, April 13, 2022 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm PST Topic Why Should We Care? Connecting Product Development to…
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How do you keep your user experience state-of-the-art and a joy for the customer without killing your team and budget? Go Agile. Topic Creating an Exceptional User Experience, the Agile Way Speaker Sean Van Tyne, Author, Easy to Use 2.0 Summary UX Agile workshop is a two-hour intensive, hands-on experience for lean and agile product…
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There is an old adage in business: “Sell the sizzle, not the steak.” Emotionally hook them with benefits, not features. And how exactly does the infamous squirrel play a part in all of this? Attend our workshop to find out more! Topic What A Squirrel Can Teach Us about Communicating Value Speaker Neil Baron, B2B…
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