Mind the Product

DECEMBER 8, 2017

When designing connected hardware products, there are many ways in which a project can go sideways and end up way over budget before the product is completed or in a manufacturable state. This list includes: Define your product specifications early. Find a team with comparable production quantity experience.

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Speaker: Dan Olsen - Product Management Trainer and Consultant, Author, and Speaker

Everyone working on a product is trying to achieve the same goal: product-market fit. But most products fail to do so. In this webinar, product management expert Dan Olsen will share his simple but effective framework for achieving product-market fit from his book The Lean Product Playbook.

User Testing

Speaker: Jim Morris, Founder, Product Discovery Group

How can a Product team find that next big idea? It turns out that even ordinary product teams can discover extraordinary ideas. By using the Product Discovery Cycle, teams can find new ideas, understand customer pain points, and test solutions quickly and cheaply. This is an exclusive session you don't want to miss!

Product Research

Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst - President of Tyner Blain, Product Management and Strategy Consultant

What we build are features, intended to add value for our customers and advance our company's financial goals. We will look at how product managers shape the approach to building valuable products, and how to identify what is important to measure, avoiding vanity metrics and creating useful feedback to improve your product as you develop it.

Feedback Software

Speaker: Rebecca Notté, Product Operations Manager and Hannah Chaplin, Director of Product Marketing at Pendo

Taking a proactive approach when collecting customer feedback will answer all these questions and ensure that you are building the best product. In this interactive session, Hannah and Rebecca will share their experience of building product roadmaps that align with company goals while also ensuring that customers are truly heard.

User Testing

Speaker: Christian Bonilla, VP of Product Management at UserTesting

Every product team wants to build things users love. The goal may sound simple, but it’s hard to do. It’s why breakthrough products rarely happen by accident. Rather, they start with a strong product vision. Getting that vision right is one of the most important responsibilities of the product team.

Vision

Speaker: Peter Taylor, Speaker & Author of The Lazy Project Manager

When people come together to work towards a common goal and purpose, they rely on a social system of communication and collaboration in order to succeed. Social Collaborative Management aims at delivering, at the enterprise level, a common goal for the business while harnessing the performance advantages of a collaborative community.

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