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Product Management Conferences To Attend In 2024

The Product Coalition

For 2024, several excellent conferences dedicated to product management are available, addressing the increasing interest in this field. For 2024, several excellent conferences dedicated to product management are available, addressing the increasing interest in this field.

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Lessons from a Critique | Spotify’s Failed Squad Model

Business of Software Conference

This critique of ‘Spotify’s Failed Squad Model’ is interesting for two reasons: It’s a great way of adapting a planned conference talk into something else that may have impact. Software engineers were managed outside of the team structure. Squad product managers and designers reported to department heads.

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How I PM: Brent Tworetzky, SVP of Product at InVision

Amplitude

Name: Brent Tworetzky Current role: Senior Vice President of Product at InVision Location: New York City. I started as a software engineer, then tried my hand as a management consultant, account manager, venture capitalist, and startup founder before I found the right fit in product management. Scaling product leadership.

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Bottoms Up With OKRs | Whitney O’Banner, Medium | BoS USA 2019

Business of Software Conference

Whitney O’Banner (Software Engineering Manager, Medium) – Bottoms Up With OKRs from Business of Software Conference. My name is Whitney. But I’m an engineering manager there. The year 1999 and a guy named John borrowed from a guy named Andy this goal setting methodology called OKRs.

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Guru’s Rick Nucci on using automation to scale your customer experience

Intercom, Inc.

There were 68 different systems that they were using, from notepads to wikis to Google Drive folders to a SharePoint site, to you name it. When the sales leadership and the head of IT saw that, they thought, “Oh my God, we have to put an end to this immediately.” It is very different than traditional software engineering.

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How Can Product Leaders Support Continuous Discovery?

Product Talk

In addition to delivering a keynote at the Product at Heart conference (in case you missed it, you can find the video and transcript of that presentation here ), conference co-organizer Petra Wille also invited me to participate in a fireside chat at the Leadership Forum event. Introduction: What Is Product Discovery?

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Upsides to unshipping: The art of removing features and products

Mixpanel

Prior to this position, Neil was VP of Engineering, after working as a Software Engineer and leading Infrastructure Engineering. Arguably, killing portions of a product is one of the most challenging aspects of leadership. Before Mixpanel, Neil was the co-founder of Atomic Contacts. The ‘Is it still valuable?’