Author: SVPMA Admin

How to Harness Crowdsourcing for Product Development

By Daphne Lefran Research and development used to be viewed as a strenuous process with single-room focus groups, telephone interviews and paper surveys.  With the advent of the internet and social media platforms, it’s gotten a lot simpler to gain useful insights into what your customers want.

Product Management – Then, Now, And In the Future: A Celebration TEDx Style

December Event Review: Product Management – Then, Now, and In the Future: A Celebration TEDx Style By Dan Galatin December 2015 Event SVPMA hosted a gala celebration of its 15th anniversary on December 2nd.  To celebrate, several former SVPMA board members and speakers shared their thoughts on how the world of product management has evolved…
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Workshop – Breakthrough Insights and Practices for Today’s Movers and Shakers!

November 2015 WorkshopBreakthrough Insights and Practices for Today’s Movers and Shakers!Pierre Khawand, Founder & CEO, People-OnTheGo (Slides not available)#Workshop #Leadership #Tools #Career #Performance #Metrics #Market_Analysis #Project_Mgmt #Thought_Leadership #Programs #Initiatives

Tool-a-Palooza at SVPMA

November Event Review: ‘Tool-a-Palooza’ at SVPMA By Neha Nayak November 2015 Event The Silicon Valley Product Management Association held their first ‘Tool-a-Palooza’ event at their monthly meeting this November.  ‘Tool-a-Palooza’ was a session aimed at sharing productivity enhancing, easy-to-use product management tools for leading and aspiring product managers. 

Annual Job Fair

October 2015Job Fair(No slides or Event Summary Available)#Career #Startups #Entrepreneurship #Project_Mgmt #Marketing #Development #Design

SVPMA Recruiter Panel

September Event Review: SVPMA Recruiter Panel By Pushpa Chandrashekaraiah September 2015 Event On September 2, a panel moderated by Jeanne Lew, Associate Director at Haas School of Business, was very insightful for not only product management job seekers but also for all product managers on how to build strong profiles.  The panelists had very successful…
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When Sharks Attack! – How Data Saves Product Managers From Becoming Shark Bait

August Event Review: “When Sharks Attack! – How Data Saves Product Managers From Becoming Shark Bait” with Robert Green, Director Product Management, Tableau Software By Neha Nayak August 2015 Event “Tonight we are going to talk about sharks, data and how data is going to help product managers stay away from becoming shark bait” was…
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The Art of Engaging Millennials

The Art of Engaging MillennialsLee Caraher, CEO, Double ForteJuly 2015(no event review available)#Communication #Leadership #Org #Marketing #Tools  #Sales #Startups #Entrepreneurship #Growth #Design

7 Deadly Sins — Lessons From Silicon Valley On How To Successfully “Cross The Chasm”

June Event Review: 7 Deadly Sins — Lessons From Silicon Valley On How To Successfully “Cross The Chasm” with Michael Eckhardt, Managing Director of Chasm Institute By Dan Galatin June 2015 Event Michael Eckhardt, managing director of Chasm Institute, presented at the June 3rd meeting of the SVPMA.  Michael led a lively discussion of Chasm’s…
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How Product Managers Lead Through Communication

by Barry Mohn – Speak and Write “Our product managers need to be the CEOs of their products.”  This is what a senior director declared at a meeting I attended recently.  We were there to discuss leadership training for his Silicon Valley high-tech company, and the focus that day was squarely on his product managers’…
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