How to lead, stay visible, and protect your sanity in times of chaos. Leadership and Influence When Everything’s On Fire The world of tech and product is in constant churn, with shifting roadmaps, re-orgs, leadership changes, layoffs, and market uncertainty. In the middle of it all, your influence and presence matter more than ever. This…
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This one is all about you – how to build and protect your product career. And how to make more while doing less. As product professionals, it’s too easy to become an interchangeable part of the pack and easily replaced. Though never good, this is especially dangerous when cost-cutting, M&A, and new technologies like AI…
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Mastering Discovery for Product Success: Beyond the Requirements List Successful technology offerings don’t fail due to lack of effort—they fail, in part, to incomplete discovery. This session will equip product managers and their teams with a structured approach to uncovering the true business needs behind stakeholder requests. Using the 7 Levels of Highly Effective Discovery,…
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Building new products or new product features in-house may or may not be the right choice. There are other options, including buying the capabilities, partnering with another company, or even acquiring altogether. How do you decide? Which factors should you take into consideration beyond a pure cost comparison? In this session, we will define each…
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In this talk, we will explore five essential habits that can significantly accelerate product development cycles. Drawing from transformative prior work as a senior executive at Fortune 500 firm Agilent Technologies, John Sadler emphasizes the importance of continuous customer contact, prioritizing quality and cadence over scope, maintaining integration throughout the development process, fostering psychological safety…
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What do you do when everyone wants everything everywhere all at once? How do you decide what enhancements and even bugs (since not all are deal breakers) to focus on and in what sequence? Feature prioritization is a key activity in Product Management. But when the topic of prioritization comes up, many people don’t actually…
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It’s one thing to plan and launch new products for a market and customer base you know well and that is eagerly anticipating your new offering. What do we need to do differently when starting with a blank slate and no customers at all? Plenty, it turns out. And who better to educate us than…
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Summary Join us to discover some of the latest approaches to end-to-end product, from concept to market, along with some of our speaker’s lessons learned in each phase. Focus on the problem, not the solution: Initiate the product journey by thoroughly understanding your target audience’s pain points and challenges. This problem-centric approach lays the foundation…
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Many people believe that breaking into product management is one of the most difficult career transitions in technology. However with the right actions on your part, it doesn’t have to be that way. In keeping with SVPMA’s December meeting tradition of a career theme, this event will highlight the path and journey that led Ronke…
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When Wednesday, October 11, 2023 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm PT Topic Experience the Customer Discovery Process While Shaping the Future of SVPMA Speakers SVPMA Board Summary This month’s meeting is a break from tradition and serves a dual purpose – come join us to enhance your Customer Discovery skills while offering customer input into the…
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