Five years after the first PCamp, it’s thrilling to see Product Camps become a global phenomenon. Over the next few months, we’ll see events in Austin, Vancouver, St. Louis, Washington and Boston. Last year’s far-flung camps included London, Amsterdam, Bangalore and Melbourne. The world’s biggest Product Camp, of course, is here in Silicon Valley on March 24th. A sell-out crowd of 600+ is assured.
Stockholm’s third annual Product Leadership Days will be March 22-23, and is expected to draw 100+ product management professionals and related technologists from throughout Sweden and northern Europe. (Agenda in the original Swedish). This year’s focus is on sustainable profitability for B2B tech companies. Continue reading
I had a chance to spend a week with some of Dublin’s software thought leaders, including two days teaching in a Postgraduate Diploma Program in Product Management offered by the Dublin Institute of Technology and Software Skillnet. In addition, the Irish Software Association generously hosted a workshop and lecture, where we talked about technology management, agile, and building commercially successful products. Continue reading
John Peltier is a seasoned product manager out of Atlanta, and does a periodic 
webcast with guest product folks posted on his Product Owner Vision blog. He generously included me in an interview posted on12 December. We recorded a half hour discussion covering:
Listen to the entire session here.
As a break from stealth start-up work, I led a discussion for SDForum’s Engineering Leadership SIG on “How Engineering Can Work Better with Product Management.” This was a VERY spirited discussion…
We gathered some (good and bad) experiences from attendees about their interactions with product management, tried to define what the PM role is, and shared some thoughts on how to cooperate better for great products and organizations. Lots of questions about how to get into product management, and why people would stay in such a role! Continue reading
