My friends at Sage, Erik and Guillermo, are doing a webinar for VersionOne.
In this webinar you’ll hear about Sage’s customer-driven approach to product planning and development. Learn how the Product Management team uses VersionOne to engage directly with customers and manage agile projects from idea through to delivery.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 12:00 PM until 1:00 PM EST.
Erik Kaas is VP of Product Management for Sage’s portfolio of ERP products. He manages a team of Product Managers responsible for specifying market requirements for current and future products. Erik has been with Sage for 4 years and has over 18 years product management experience.
Guillermo Tellez is a Senior Product Manager at Sage, and is responsible for the Business Intelligence suite within the ERP portfolio. His primary role is to conduct market research in collaboration with customers to ensure that engineering develops and releases products based on the needs of customers.
Here is the video from ProductCamp Vancouver 2011:
“ProductCamp” is an unconference that relies on the spirited participation of all attendees and results in an invigorating day of dialogue and debate. You’ll share real world experiences of designing, marketing and launching products and learn from each other about the latest trends, tools, and techniques in bringing innovative products to market.
Please pass this along and consider attending. I am registered and quite excited about my eighth ProductCamp.
http://productcampseattle.org/about/
“ProductCamp” is an unconference that relies on the spirited participation of all attendees and results in an invigorating day of dialogue and debate. You’ll share real world experiences of designing, marketing and launching products and learn from each other about the latest trends, tools, and techniques in bringing innovative products to market.
productcamp.org is your definitive source for all product camps.
There are six ProductCamps in the near future (with many more in planning). While you are here, why not check out my events (or subscribe to the RSS feed) page for the most comprehensive list of product management events available.
In the spirit of BarCamp, ProductCamp is a collaborative, user organized unconference, focused on Product Management and Marketing. At ProductCamp there are no “attendees”, since everyone is an active participant in some way: presenting, leading a roundtable discussion, sharing their experiences, helping with logistics, securing sponsorship, setting up wifi, or volunteering. ProductCamp is a great opportunity for you to learn, share, and network with professionals involved in the Product Management, Marketing, and Development.
Having attended six (!) ProductCamps, I can attest to the content and value you will receive from attending. I also encourage you to participate and volunteer.
ProductCamp Austin
Date: Saturday, January 15, 2011
Location: The AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, Austin, TX
URL: http://barcamp.org/ProductCampAustin
Twitter: @PCAustin
ProductCamp Dallas
Date: February 26, 2011
Location: University of Texas at Dallas – School of Management, Richardson, TX
URL: http://pcampdallas.org/
Twitter: @prodcampDALLAS
ProductCamp Bangalore 2010
Date: October 23, 2010
Location: Yahoo!, Bagmane Tridib, Block A, Bagmane Tech Park, Bangalore, India http://pcampblr10.weebly.com/index.html
ProductCamp NYC 2010 (New York, NY)
Date: Saturday, November 6, 2010
Location: Microsoft Corporation, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York
URL: http://barcamp.org/ProductCampNYC
Twitter: @ProductCampNYC
Rocky Mountain ProductCamp (Denver, CO)
Date: Saturday, November 13, 2010
Location: Metro State
URL: http://rmpcamp.org/
Twitter: @RMPcamp
Minnesota ProductCamp (St. Paul, MN)
Date: Saturday, November 13, 2010
Location: University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
URL: http://www.pcampmn.org/
Twitter: @pcampmn
ProductCamp Amsterdam 2010
Date: Sunday, November 14, 2010
Location: Backbase, Jacob Bontiusplaats 9, Amsterdam
URL: http://www.productcampamsterdam.org/
Twitter: @pcampamsterdam
Have a Marketing, Product Development, Product Management, Innovation or other related event you want to promote? Contact me and I’ll add it to the growing list for others to see. Also, why not subscribe to the events feed. Tell other people about these events.
I asked Parissa Behnia, Idea Chef from 678 Partners to recap her experience at ProductCamp Chicago. Chicago has always been a bit of weird product management market and I was really excited to see this get off the ground. (Denver???) I hope you enjoy her guest post…
PMs launch flawless ProductCamp Chicago
And live to tell about it! On June 19, members of Chicago’s Product Manager community came together at Illinois Technology Association’s TechNexus for a great day of sharing, discussing and networking! It was a great way to support and celebrate our vibrant PM talent as well as elevate our profile nationwide. We want to let our PM friends on both coasts know that we’re here and want to participate in the broader discussion!
Our day started off with an excellent keynote by Dr. Jim Anderson who graciously donated his time and wisdom to all of us. His positivity and energy, as well as his vision, set the tone for the rest of the day. He made us realize that it’s all well and good that we’re focused on the now, but if we truly want to do right by our customers, we have to think of how we get our products to future state to manage and exceed expectations.
His great keynote was matched by great roundtable discussions led by Coley Perry, Thierry Roullier, Pek Pongpaet, Robert Moll, Peter Morano, Tim Courtney, Michael Walkden and Tim Goodall. And discussions they truly were! The leaders were peppered with some really thoughtful questions by the attendees all the way through: a true sign of quality topics and engaged audiences.
Truly, seeing so many likeminded people in the room was a shot in the arm that our Chicago PMs needed. As someone said, if you’re having trouble breaking up the conversations so you can start your next session, it means that you’re doing a bang up job and fulfilling the mission. Not bad, eh?
Another sign of fulfilling the mission: there was a groundswell of positive feedback early on in the day and it’s only continued since then. Attendees also gave us some really good suggestions for improving on our successful model and we can’t wait to implement them. What’s more, many attendees have volunteered to be a part of the organizing team which is very exciting.
Plans are in the works for the next ProductCamp Chicago, which will be in October. We’re currently on the hunt for Chicago based Pharma and CPG PMs to join us in the lively art of PM conversation! If you know any, please spread the word!
Hats off to Dave Radzialowski for leading the charge and to Joshua Steffan, Roshan Shankar and Shawn Emery. It was a pleasure working with them on this successful launch and we look forward to more ProductCamp Chicago successes!
Thank you to our sponsors as well: 280 Group, Illinois Technology Association, Macon Raine, Pathfinder Development, Sears, Orbitz, Pragmatic Marketing, Product Development and Management Association, Zig Zag Marketing and Chicago Product Management Association.
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productcamp.org is your definitive source for all product camps.
There are eight ProductCamps in the near future (with many more in planning). While you are here, why not check out my events (or subscribe to the RSS feed) page for the most comprehensive list of product management events available.
In the spirit of BarCamp, ProductCamp is a collaborative, user organized unconference, focused on Product Management and Marketing. At ProductCamp there are no “attendees”, since everyone is an active participant in some way: presenting, leading a roundtable discussion, sharing their experiences, helping with logistics, securing sponsorship, setting up wifi, or volunteering. ProductCamp is a great opportunity for you to learn, share, and network with professionals involved in the Product Management, Marketing, and Development.
Having attended six (!) ProductCamps, I can attest to the content and value you will receive from attending. I also encourage you to participate and volunteer.
ProductCamp Atlanta (Atlanta, GA)
Date: August 21, 2010
Location: TBD
URL: http://pcampatl.com/
Twitter Hashtag: #pcampatl
ProductCamp DC (Washington, DC)
Date: Satuday, August 28, 2010
Location: Network Solutions, Herndon, VA
URL: http://www.productcampdc.org/
Twitter: @pcampdc
ProductCamp NYC 2010 (New York, NY)
Date: Saturday, November 6, 2010
Location: Microsoft Corporation, 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York
URL: http://barcamp.org/ProductCampNYC
Twitter: @ProductCampNYC
Rocky Mountain ProductCamp (Denver, CO)
Date: Saturday, November 13, 2010
Location: Metro State
URL: http://rmpcamp.org/
Twitter: @RMPcamp
Minnesota ProductCamp (St. Paul, MN)
Date: Saturday, November 13, 2010
Location: University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
URL: http://www.pcampmn.org/
Twitter: @pcampmn
ProductCamp Austin Summer 2010 (Austin, TX)
Date: Saturday August 7, 2010
Location: AT&T Conference Center on the University of Texas campus
URL: http://barcamp.org/ProductCampAustinSummer2010
Twitter Hashtag: #pca10
Have a Marketing, Product Development, Product Management, Innovation or other related event you want to promote? Contact me and I’ll add it to the growing list for others to see. Also, why not subscribe to the events feed. Tell other people about these events.
productcamp.org is your definitive source for all product camps.
There are six eight ProductCamps in the near future. While you are here, why not check out my events (or subscribe to the RSS feed) page for the most comprehensive list of product management events available.
In the spirit of BarCamp, ProductCamp is a collaborative, user organized unconference, focused on Product Management and Marketing. At ProductCamp there are no “attendees”, since everyone is an active participant in some way: presenting, leading a roundtable discussion, sharing their experiences, helping with logistics, securing sponsorship, setting up wifi, or volunteering. ProductCamp is a great opportunity for you to learn, share, and network with professionals involved in the Product Management, Marketing, and Development.
Having attended six (!) ProductCamps, I can attest to the content and value you will receive from attending. I also encourage you to participate and volunteer.
ProductCamp RTP (Raleigh, NC)
Date: Saturday, May 22, 2010
Location: Cambria Suites at RDU Airport
URL: http://barcamp.org/ProductCampRTP
ProductCamp Boston (Boston, MA)
Date: Saturday, May 22, 2010
Location: The Microsoft New England Research & Development Center
URL: http://barcamp.org/ProductCampBoston
Have a Marketing, Product Development, Product Management, Innovation or other related event you want to promote? Contact me and I’ll add it to the growing list for others to see. Also, why not subscribe to the events feed. Tell other people about these events.
We are searching Agile Product Management submissions for the Agile 2010 conference in Nashville. The Agile 2010 submission process will be somewhat different than in past years. In the past submissions would be submitted to individual stages for consideration. This year you will be submitting to one of the broad conference themes, Business, Technical, and Leadership & Organization. Once submitted the program committee will identify and forward to the most appropriate stage. The length of the sessions will either be 60 or 90 minutes and will be presented Tuesday – Thursday ONLY.
Please contact me if you have any questions, I am on the review committee.
The submission system will be open on January 11, 2010 and will remain open until February 26, 2010. Please see this link for more information – Agile 2010 Be a Speaker (http://agile2010.agilealliance.org/speaker.html).
** New link: http://agile2010.agilealliance.org/product
Business Theme Stages
Agile Product Management: As with many disciplines, agile techniques leverage our best practices, adapting them with short, empirical feedback loops. This track presents and explores: What best practices in product management are leveraged by agile teams? How have product management practices been adapted for agile? What new product management techniques have emerged from agile teams?
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