Wednesday, December 11, 2024 at 6pm PST (in-person) ‘Tis the season to celebrate with your fellow product management professionals! Join us for the SVPMA In-Person Holiday Networking Social on Wednesday, December 11th at 6pm at Indian Sizzler* in Santa Clara. Come unwind at a casual happy hour and make meaningful connections with like-minded individuals in…
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“The role of the product manager has evolved to influence every aspect of making a product successful.” ~ MCKINSEY REPORT; The Product Management Talent Dilemma Since 2018, Productside has been conducting a global survey to examine the skill levels of Product Managers across 15 dimensions and to create the Product Management Skills Benchmark report. In…
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In-Person Fireside Chat, Networking, and Social, Co-Hosted by Nium NOTE: Video is still being processed. (Not available yet). Join us for an evening of hors d’oeuvres, networking, and insights on AI trends and other topics in San Francisco for a fireside chat featuring three esteemed product leaders: Abhijit Thosar: Head of Research and Design for…
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Wednesday, August 28, 2024 at 5:30pm PST (in-person) Looking for a little after-work “therapy” with your product management friends? Look no further than the in-person SVPMA After-Work Social! If you haven’t already made plans to come, be sure to join us on Wednesday, August 28th at 5:30pm in Santa Clara at Pedro’s Restaurant & Cantina…
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Building new products or new product features in-house may or may not be the right choice. There are other options, including buying the capabilities, partnering with another company, or even acquiring altogether. How do you decide? Which factors should you take into consideration beyond a pure cost comparison? In this session, we will define each…
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In this talk, we will explore five essential habits that can significantly accelerate product development cycles. Drawing from transformative prior work as a senior executive at Fortune 500 firm Agilent Technologies, John Sadler emphasizes the importance of continuous customer contact, prioritizing quality and cadence over scope, maintaining integration throughout the development process, fostering psychological safety…
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Thank You! Thank you to all of the Product Managers, Product Marketers, Entrepreneurs, Product Designers, and other Product Professionals who joined us June 12th. We greatly enjoyed the wide-ranging conversations and networking session! Please keep an eye on the SVPMA Calendar – we will definitely do more of these further into the summer.
What do you do when everyone wants everything everywhere all at once? How do you decide what enhancements and even bugs (since not all are deal breakers) to focus on and in what sequence? Feature prioritization is a key activity in Product Management. But when the topic of prioritization comes up, many people don’t actually…
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It’s one thing to plan and launch new products for a market and customer base you know well and that is eagerly anticipating your new offering. What do we need to do differently when starting with a blank slate and no customers at all? Plenty, it turns out. And who better to educate us than…
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This talk will walk through a real-world case study of how OKRs are used to create a product roadmap while tracking execution for a wildly successful marketplace like Shipt. Shipt is a retail tech company and independently operated subsidiary of Target Corp. Available in more than 5,000 U.S. cities, it received Newsweek’s America’s Best Customer…
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