“Creating New Products – A Case Study on Application of Proven Principles that Work” with Alexander Cowan, CTO, Leonid Systems By Cindy F. Solomon December 2012 Event At the December 5, 2012 meeting of the Silicon Valley Product Management Association meeting held at Tech Mart in Santa Clara, Alexander Cowan, CTO, Leonid Systems presented “Creating…
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Product Management: Lessons learned in the trenches with 1) Alan Lewis, Principal Product Manager, Move.com, 2) Darayush Mistry, Sr. Director of Product Management, Salesforce.com and 3) Miriam Geller, Director of Product Management, Yahoo! Mail. Moderator, Mike Freier, President, SVPMA and Product Management Consulting Group By Pushpa Chandrashekaraiah November 2012 Event SVPMA’s Monthly event featured a…
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“Marketing the Experience: Applying Product Management Concepts to Services and Events” with Dr. Juan P. Montermoso, President at Montermoso Associates By Dan Galatin October 2012 Event Juan Montermoso, President at Montermoso Associates and Professor of Practice in Marketing at Santa Clara University, presented at the October 3rd meeting of the SVPMA. Dr. Montermoso discussed new elements…
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“Estimating Business Value” with Chris Sims, Founder, Agile Coach, Certified Scrum Trainer at Agile Learning Labs By Tej Ravindra September 2012 Event September’s SVPMA meeting was a rare treat. The audience was actively engaged in hand on estimation, ROI analysis and planning scrums. Chris Sims, an experience Scrum master presented the philosophy and the practice…
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“Benefits Realization: The Competitive Advantage” with Prashanth Naidu Director, Office of CIO at Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) By Pushpa Chandrashekaraiah August 2012 Event Prashanth Naidu leads Strategic and Financial Planning, Portfolio Management and Executive Communications. He discussed how critical it is to set specific goals, measure them consistently and adopt the outcomes to improve processes…
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“PM Lessons Learned from Companies Big and Small” with Dane Glasgow, VP of Global Product Management at eBay By Dan Galatin July 2012 Event Dane Glasgow, Vice President of Global Product Management at eBay, presented at the July 11th meeting of the SVPMA. He shared the story of his career journey and some of the…
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Career in Product Management – What Next? with 1) Al Nevarez, VP Product Management of Allegiance, 2) Deb McClanahan, Principal of BroadBand HR Consulting, 3) Eric Carrasquilla, General Manager of Amdocs CRM Division and 4) Justin Schuster, VP Product Marketing of Lithium. Moderator, Greg Geracie, President of Actuation Consulting and author of the book Take…
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“Strategic Planning for More Effective Product Management” with Brian Lawley, CEO and Founder, 280 Group By Cindy F. Solomon, CPM, CPMM May 2012 Event As former president of the SVPMA, and the CEO and Founder of the 280 Group, Brian is a relentless evangelist for the product management profession, product manager excellence and purveyor of…
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“Platforms for the Next Wave” with Rick Chavez, General Manager for Microsoft Advertising’s Online Services Division By Chen Zou April 2012 Event Rick Chavez heads Microsoft’s advertising Online Services organization, which delivers solutions that enable companies to connect and deeply engage with their customers. In this capacity, the marketing solutions team spans field sales, strategic,…
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“The Secrets of Unlocking Access to Venture Capital – as a Career or for Funding” with Ravi Belani, Venture Capitalist and Instructor at Stanford University by Dan Galatin March 2012 Event Ravi Belani, a venture capitalist and instructor at Stanford, presented at the March 7th meeting of the SVPMA. Mr. Belani discussed techniques for gaining…
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