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Session ideas for ProductCamp Boston - May 3, 2014

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Session ideas for ProductCamp Boston - May 3, 2014

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  1. Go deep on the topic of being an Agile product owner in this engaging, informative session. In a Lean Coffee™ - a lightly structured yet agenda-less session – everyone participates. The group selects the topics, discusses their experiences, and learns from each other. Bring your brain, energy, curiosity, passions, puzzles, “prouds” and “sorries”. You don’t need to be an expert or have in-depth experience in Agile product ownership to add and obtain value.

    Ellen Gottesdiener facilitates the Lean Coffee™, as she did at the Product Management Festival in Zurich this past September. (The session was considered a highlight of the…

    23 votes
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  2. A never ending discussion on what's important and what are we developing vs what's my roadmap brings every stakeholder in organization on a discussion table. The debate can only become meaningful if a Product manager brings an effective conclusion.

    Learn what belong where and what can make way for deliverable product.

    33 votes
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  3. You’re about to show the product roadmap you’ve slaved over to your executives, your key customers or your sales team. What could possibly go wrong?

    In the sequel to the most popular session at PCamp Boston 2013, Bruce McCarthy, Chief Product Person at UpUp Labs, Vice President and Chief Evangelist for the BPMA, and popular speaker, will explore the myriad mistakes product people make when developing product roadmaps.

    He’ll explore what happens when you:

    • Focus on features
    • Try too hard to please
    • Don't get buy-in
    • Prioritize on gut
    • Fail to tell a story

    And he'll tell you what you can…

    77 votes
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  4. When we say that the web is becoming API-driven, we're really talking about using the offerings of specific companies like Facebook and Google. How do developers decide whose API to use and whose to abandon? Many of those companies are turning to developer evangelists and advocates to encourage developers, or even entire companies, to pursue deeper integrations.

    The job description of a developer evangelist is akin to "professional hat-wearer" and usually includes aspects of sales, marketing, community management. There's a strong case for getting them involved in product management because they collect so much feedback from real users in real…

    7 votes
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  5. Traditional requirements deliverables like MRDs (Market Requirements Documents) and PRDs (Product Requirements Documents) have no place in Agile… right? Or do they? Many teams throw out most “traditional” product management techniques when implementing agile, often to run into problems when it comes to planning, roadmapping, and aligning with other functions like marketing. So are MRDs and PRDs the answer? Or is there another way to have some structure while at the same time getting the benefits of agile? This session will talk about what is different about requirements within an agile environment — what product managers need to stop doing,…

    34 votes
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  6. A successful new product or service strategy requires a laser focus on your customer’s wants, needs and pain points from development, to testing, to launch and support. Thus, a best-in-class NPD process takes an integrated approach that extends beyond the completion of the product to re-think and re-imagine how the launch will impact the entire value proposition -- including areas such as pricing, packaging, and sales and marketing. While many new product development processes do this to some extent, very few companies keep the customer at the center of this process every step of the way.

    While it’s true that…

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  7. Identifying and exploiting new opportunities for growth is a constant point of tension for companies. Yet in this never ending quest for growth, many business strategists fail to see the opportunities that are right in their backyards – customer or capability adjacencies that are very natural extensions of their current strategies. An adjacency-based approach to growth has the benefit of leveraging business assets that already exist, but it does come with risks. For example, strategies that are too far afield from your core offerings – and thus with weak linkages – are likely to fail.

    In this session we will…

    10 votes
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  8. Here are some of the subjects we will cover:
    - How to move beyond a “one-product” company
    - Sharing infrastructure between products
    - Selling multiple products
    - Optimizing the portfolio
    - Structuring R&D
    - Licensing best practices
    - Subject Matter Experts (SME) vs. Cross functional teams

    Join Oded Valin, Director of Product Management at CyberArk to learn what worked, what didn’t work and what was learned in growing the company from a small startup with one product to 350 Employees Company with an impressive product portfolio.

    53 votes
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