“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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“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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Persuasive Communication – the 3 Most Important Skills You Need Right Now August 2012 WorkshopJuliet Erickson, Author and Communication Consultant (Click here for Presentation Slides) #Communication#Tools#Marketing#Leadership#Programs #Initiatives#Entrepreneurship#Startups#Career
“Starting from Scratch? Lessons Learned From Trying to Create Software as a Service at SAP” with Mike Tschudy, VP, Product Design Group, On Demand Applications at SAP By Tej Ravindra February 2012 Event In February’s SVPMA monthly meeting, Mike Tschudy shared his experience and insights on developing SAAS solutions from a scratch. Three key takeaways…
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Meeting Archives 2011 Please click on the link below to see the meetings for that year. 2021 | 20202019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 DecemberThe…
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“Gamification: Why it’s important and what it means for your product” with Rajat Paharia, founder and Chief Product Officer of Bunchball July 2011 Event reviewed by Cindy Solomon Rajat Paharia,founder and Chief Product Officer of Bunchball, presented “Gamification” an emerging trend that is influencing product design and marketing programs. If you haven’t heard about it yet,…
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“Beyond Projects: Creating A Winning Product Portfolio” with Walter Sun, Principal, PRTM May 2011 Event by Dan Galatin Walter Sun, a Principal with the management consulting firm PRTM, presented at the May 4th meeting of the SVPMA. He discussed best practices for managing a portfolio of products to maximize its value to the business. Mr.…
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February 2011Practical Pricing Tips for Driving Profitable GrowthDavid Mok, Senior Manager, Pricing at Seagate Technologies#Marketing#Growth#Finance#Market_Analysis#Startups#Entrepreneurship#Readiness#Launch#Lifecycle#Tools#Sales#Strategy
January 2011Launching a new product – Beyond TechCrunch!!!Chris Yeh, VP Marketing, PB Works#Launch#Readiness#Startups#Entrepreneurship#Marketing#Growth#Planning#Strategy #Tools