Product Management Essentials for Project and Program Managers
— market success, effective development
Speaker: Rich Mironov
Meeting Date: Thursday, October 6, 2011
Time: 6.00 pm Networking; 6:30 pm Management Forum/Guided Networking; 7:00 pm sandwich dinner; 7:30 pm Presentation
Location: RAMADA Silicon Valley, Sunnyvale
Summary:
Management Forum / Guided Networking: Bring Your Management Challenge; Arrive by 6:30 PM to join this exciting Management Forum. Following informal networking is a guided discussion typically related to the topic of the evening’s after dinner talk, or of general Technology Management interest.
Light Dinner: This month we’re continuing with our light dinner format — typically sandwiches, salad, drinks, and cookie or similar light dinner.
Presentation: Product Management Essentials for Project and Program Managers
PRODUCT management is a murky role: poorly understood and inconsistently practiced across tech companies. It’s often confused with PROGRAM management and PROJECT management. Yet done well, product management is often a driver of market success and effective development. This session will try to define the basics of product management, contrast them with project/program management, and identify ways for all of us to work more effectively together.
We will solicit experiences from attendees about their interactions with product management (good and bad!) as a way to bring in real-world issues.
Target audience includes project/program managers, and first/second-line development managers whose teams interact directly with these various roles.
Bio:
Rich Mironov is a serial entrepreneur and veteran of 5 tech startups. He’s been a founding CEO, VP Product Management/Marketing, go-to-market strategist and agile “product guy”. He’s also consulted to dozens of technology companies as an interim product executive or on specific projects.
Rich’s book, “The Art of Product Management” captures the best of his Product Bytes blog from 2001 to 2008, and represents the scrappy entrepreneur in all of us. Rich served on the board of the Silicon Valley Product Management Association (SVPMA), has taught in Haas’ executive education program, and produced (chaired) the Agile Alliance’s first product manager/product owner conference tracks. He is an in-demand speaker for business, executive and technical audiences.
Rich also founded the first Product Camp. Two dozen of these semi-unstructured get-togethers are planned worldwide for 2011, where product managers have an opportunity to network, teach, learn and share.
Rich has a BS in Physics from Yale with a thesis on dinosaur extinction theories, and an MBA from Stanford.