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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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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“Datacenter Architecture For The Next Decade” with Howard Ting, Senior VP of Marketing at Nutanix, Inc. By Pushpa Chandrashekaraiah March 2015 Event This was a very different topic from most of the SVPMA monthly events, in terms of the topic itself and depth of technical details covered in this session. Howard Ting talked about how…
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February 2015Bootstrap your Business Model: Find Product/ Market Fit with the Back of a NapkinBernie Maloney, Agile Coach/ Intra*preneur / Lecturer (no event review available)#Growth #Market_Analysis #Marketing #Design #Tools #Growth #Startups #Entrepreneurship #Readiness #Launch #Strategy #Planning #Finance
Meeting Archives 2014 Please click on the link below to see the meetings for that year. 2021 | 2020 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000…
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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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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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“Innovation Investment Strategy And Product Portfolio Optimization” with Jeff Lash, Research Director/Product Management, Sirius Decisions By Helene Eichler February 2014 Event Jeff kicked-off an insightful discussion highlighting that many companies struggle with funding new product innovation and often lack a “structured strategy” for selecting investments that fuel successful business. Two astounding findings he shared: 34%…
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