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Why Should We Care? Connecting Product Development to Corporate Strategy with Jessica Sweeney

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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Workshop – Creating an Exceptional User Experience, the Agile Way

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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Workshop – What A Squirrel Can Teach Us about Communicating Value

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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Fast-Track into Product Leadership and Claim Your Seat at the Strategy Table with Lynne Levy, Product Management Coach

Learn the 5 key steps to fast-track your career into leadership, while reducing stress and loving your job again. Speaker Lynne Levy, Product Management Coach Summary Learn the 5 key steps to fast-track your career into leadership, while reducing stress and loving your job again.  We will walk through why working harder is the worst…
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Getting Onto and Moving Up the Product Management Career Ladder with Rich Mironov, CEO of Mironov Consulting

What do PMs actually do? How do you get that first product job? How does a senior PM move up to the director level? Join us via Zoom for Rich’s talk to learn more. Topic Getting Onto and Moving Up the Product Management Career Ladder Speaker Rich Mironov, CEO, Mironov Consulting Summary We will cover…
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Meet the Career Experts – How to Manage Your Career in Times of Change

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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Farming for Dissent – The Road to Improving Your Product Strategy with Ritu Goyal, Director of Engineering, Netflix

Getting your product strategy right is a tough job. Irrespective of the domain and the size of the company, product managers need to have conviction in their strategy and place smart bets. Even if you do all the research in the world up front, it is hard to know all that might go wrong. So…
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Workshop – Stakeholder Management for Product People: The Most Important Skill Nobody Teaches

Summary To get your product funded and staffed, to get your team and your stakeholders aligned, to keep your customers and your executive sponsors engaged — for your plan to have a chance, you have got to become the consummate leader.  In this workshop, Bruce McCarthy walks you through his process for gaining and maintaining…
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The State of Digital Products 2021: Results of the First Study About Digital Products in the US and Worldwide

Earlier this year, at UruIT we launched a survey to better understand the current and future state of Digital Products in the US and globally. More than 250 product team members from companies such as Amazon, Amex, Google and Netflix participated.  Be one of the first to hear all these fascinating takeaways! Summary Rodrigo will…
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Rock Your Virtual Presentations: How to Rally an Audience to Zoom In Instead of Zone Out

Online presentations are tough enough by definition, but add 18 months of non-stop virtual meetings from home, and you are facing “Zoom Fatigue” every time you speak up or present at an online gathering of any size. Attention spans have shrunk and distractions are endless. How do you quickly and effectively get your message across?…
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