January Event Review: A Fireside Chat with Derek Andersen, founder and CEO of Startup Grind By Dan Galatin January 2015 Event Derek Andersen was the subject of a freewheeling, lively interview at the January 7th SVPMA meeting. He fielded questions on startups, bootstrapping, entrepreneurship and many other topics from host Ian Sweeney and the audience.
“Shifting To An Experimental Mindset: The Dos And Don’ts Of Hypothesis Testing” with Teresa Torres, Product Consultant & Coach, former CEO By Lisa Rathjens December 2014 Event “Wisdom is the balance between knowledge and doubt.” It’s not often that product managers are encouraged to actively question their confidence in their own product ideas. But doubt…
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“The Usual Suspects: Solutions Beneath The Surface Of Organizational Chaos” with Dr. Gary Katzenstein, Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley By Pushpa Chandrashekaraiah November 2014 Event Dr. Gary Katzenstein from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley discussed his framework of The Usual Suspects by going over a case study about the United…
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“Getting Products Out From Under The MIDDLE Of The Bell Curve And Exceeding Expectations” with Preston Smalley, Executive Director, Product Management, Comcast By Dan Galatin September 2014 Event Preston opened by discussing specific techniques and practices for producing excellent products rather than mediocre ones. He began by describing his experience helping to create the first…
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“Is Product Management Obsolete?” with Rich Mironov, Agile product management expert, start-up exec, author, B2B software guy at Mironov Consulting By Helene Eichler August 2014 Event Rich Mironov delivered a provocative, insightful and entertaining discussion on the “true” meaning of the product management role at SVPMA’s August 6th, 2014 event. Rich boldly stated, “The challenge…
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Better Strategic Product And Business Decisions For Complex Global Markets with Liesl Leary, Director of Marketing at SDL by Lisa Rathjens July 2014 Event When product managers think about bringing their products to global audiences, translation of the product content is of first importance. This is an expensive endeavor, but generally well understood and straightforward. …
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“Extending Agile Practices To Large Distributed Teams” with Luke Hohmann, Founder and CEO, Conteneo By Dan Galatin June 2014 Event Luke Hohmann, Founder and CEO of Conteneo, presented at the June 4th meeting of the SVPMA. Mr. Hohmann discussed powerful techniques
Walmart’s Agile Journey: How We Scaled From 1 To 135 Agile Teams with Kamal Manglani, Sr. Mgr. & Agile Lead and Dawn Marshall, Sr. Product leader Health and Wellness, Walmart Labs GeC by Lisa Rathjens May 2014 Event When most of us think of Agile engineering processes, we think of software development, Scrum, Kanban, and…
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“3 Tools To Increase Your Productivity Immediately” with Senia Maymin, Ph.D, Profit from the Positive, LLC By Tej Ravindra April 2014 Event April’s SVPMA speaker was author and executive coach Senia Maymin. Senia outlined and taught three tools that we can apply right away to increase productivity in both our professional and personal lives. The…
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“Elevating From Consumer To Mission Critical Value” with Brian Cox, Senior Director of Marketing for Enterprise Solutions, SanDisk By Clara Kuo March 2014 Event High tech companies – just like people – are often are trying to reinvent themselves, and often the change is seen as necessary to stay relevant in the marketplace.