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How to level up your whole company in Product
The best products are built by teams of product thinkers . In becoming a leading product development firm, Thoughtworks Canada needed to ensure that the entire team, not only the Product Managers, could apply product thinking to their work.
In this talk I will introduce you to our Product Thinking Playbook and share how we built a 0-1 product development curriculum to create more effective product teams company wide.
The lessons we learned will set you up to inspire the next generation of product thinkers in your org, and scale up your influence as a PM.Presenter background:
Ivana is…5 votes -
Coaching: the secret to becoming a great PM
It can feel like you have to know everything to be an effective PM - the industry, discovery, delivery, product ops, institutional knowledge, and a growing list of technologies. But you don’t have to know it all.
One of the best ways to get better at building products is to coach your team. Coaching will help you multiply your effectiveness by building trust, empowering your team, and aligning your stakeholders.
We will go over some coaching theory and spend time coaching in pairs so you can go back to work ready to put these skills into practice. No prior coaching…
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Long term product planning is never pointless
In most organizations, teams have to plan long-term. Products are complex and can take many months, even years, to build. Partners or customers need time to plan for and adapt to new product functionality based on committed dates often many months in the future. Legislation changes have to be addressed by specific, non-negotiable dates. There are many reasons why product development may have to be planned and committed to a long time in the future. How do we reconcile the short-term 'today' view of agile delivery teams with the long-term strategic needs of stakeholders?
Product owners and teams get around…
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Networking SUCKS! How to be successful in Product Management as an Introvert
I will walk through the my experiences on how I became a product manager and succeeded as an introvert. The focus will be on:
● The ways to get noticed without getting too much out of your comfort zone
● What not to do to dimmish yourself
● Leaning into the connection you haveWe will explore in the discussion what has worked, hasn't worked, and what I probably did wrong.
Hopefully with this session you will walk away with some actionable items on how to bolster your image within your organization and get recognized.
About the Presenter:
Anthony Lee…18 votes -
Product Management for Augmented Reality/XR
With Apple widely expected to introduce AR glasses this spring, Google working on competing products and Microsoft already offering the HL. AR/XR will be a new frontier of computing that promise to unlock immense value for business and consumers alike.
With new computing paradigms comes a need for rethinking product quality. My talk will go through the differences in designing software for AR vs traditional mobile/desktop software, based on my experience building enterprise AR software for the HoloLens.
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Find the needle in the haystack: how to hire top PdM talent
Hiring top Product talent is hard, even (and maybe especially) right now when you get 100's of resumes in response to a job posting. Too many people rely on either an ad-hoc process, or a process built for hiring people in a different department (or some of both) and that can negatively impact the team for years to come.
Together, we will answer some of the following questions:
How should we start the hiring process? Will any job description do? How do we make sure we are attracting the diversity of applicants that you need? What are really the "must…
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Get to know your users AND prioritize your roadmap with a single survey
Surveys are an accessible method for individuals or teams of all sizes, and can offer reliable, quick, and insightful findings. Surveys can give you much more than just customer satisfaction with your product, they can help you prioritize your roadmap and even gain a foundational understanding of your users and their needs.
While surveys are powerful, it’s easy to misuse them and get unreliable findings. We offer a kit of practical solutions when running surveys, without compromising the depth or complexity of insights. With this workshop you’ll learn:
- How to answer multiple product questions in a single survey
- How to…
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The Power of Context
In 1985 Huey Lewis sang about the Power of Love and while love is powerful, it’s not exactly the vehicle in which PMs succeed in their jobs. A much greater vehicle is the ability to capture and understand context in order to more successfully be persuasive, be empathetic, and to better achieve your goals.
PMs are frequently asked to put themselves into the shoes of their customers and to see things from their perspective yet not only can that be a struggle but understanding stakeholders and peers are often an even greater struggle leading to adversarial relationships loaded with conflict…
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Vendor Evaluation Workshop for Product Managers
Are you looking to improve your skills and knowledge in vendor evaluation for technology products?
Look no further! I am excited to announce a workshop specifically designed for product managers working in technology, where we will delve into the importance of vendor evaluation and provide practical strategies for effectively assessing and selecting vendors for your products.
During this workshop, you will learn about:
- The key factors to consider when evaluating vendors
- How to assess vendor capabilities and their importance
- Best practices for negotiating and managing vendor contracts
- Strategies for building and maintaining strong vendor relationships
Our workshop will be led…
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Thinking Outside the Box: Strategies for disruptive innovation beyond data, customers, and bosses
Are you tired of playing catch-up with competitors just to grow at the rate of inflation? Are you overwhelmed by the pressure from customers, bosses, and ultimately yourself to find a silver bullet that supercharges growth? Let’s talk.
Join Kareem Shouhdy (Digital Product Manager, Aritzia) and Xiao Zhou (Advanced Analytics Lead, Best Buy) as they explore how to break away from the noise of data, customers, and our bosses to imagine truly disruptive solutions.
Discover the secrets of successful disruptors at Polaroid, Disney, and a Dutch grocery store with a slow checkout lane. Learn how to think outside the box…
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Advancing our craft
I would love to spend time with the brilliant minds in this community talking about advancing our craft.
I've spent almost a decade trying to do just that in Vancouver. At startups, Hootsuite, Bench, and consulting.
I 've long held the belief that we have a unique opportunity to leverage Vancouver's generally progressive, adventurous, and collaborative attitudes to build the world's best teams.
With the current state of employment, many are merely looking for work; and yet, it's also an opportunity and constraint for those who are searching or already employed to think about "how do we do what we…
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Unlock the Inner Product Leader in Every Engineer
Involving engineers in product discovery.
Poor use of their time? Nice idea in theory but hard to do in practice? Considered it but not sure how to get the most out of it?
My name is Sarah Calascione, and I am a Product Director at Paystone. In this presentation, Engineering Director Eric Leong and I will answer the following questions:
What does it mean to be a product-minded engineer?
Is it really worth the cost of engineering time spent not coding?
What are the tangible benefits of involving an engineer in product discovery?
What can you start doing tomorrow to…33 votes -
Product Anti-Patterns
Anti-patterns are those nefarious sneaky processes we fall into that “look good” perhaps on the face, but when you dig into what’s actually happening, you spot the ways it’s fighting against your goal of customer value. This panel session will be interactive and include some anti-patterns we’ve seen across our careers as well as tactics we’ve tried to break out of them.
Please feel free to bring anti-patterns you’ve spotted and the panel (and/or room) can add thoughts on things they’ve tried or would try.
Feel free to bring patterns you’ve seen that you weren’t sure about and we’ll discuss…58 votes -
Why Every Product Should Switch to Value Based Pricing -- and How to Make it Happen
Products using Value Based Pricing outperform seat-based subscriptions and all other pricing models -- yet few companies make the switch. In this interactive session, you'll learn:
• How to know if your product's pricing is truly value based (it likely isn't)
• Why innovating your pricing is more important than adding new features
• How to discover your customers' values so you can innovate effectively
• How to convince execs to make the switch -- and become a PM heroGuarantee: You'll learn new ways to quickly & safely boost your profit
Bio: Alan Albert has co-founded 3 startups, selling…
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Compensation - How to earn your value
This workshop will involve a short presentation on the current state of Product Management Compensation in BC, followed by 2 breakout sessions. The breakout groups will discuss the best ways to research Product Compensation, Salary Transparency in your company, How to discuss compensation during the Interview process and How to talk to your leader about Compensation.
Each Breakout group will be provided with an Icebreaker & Tips sheet to accelerate the conversation. Groups will organically form, and participants will have the opportunity to select their favourite topics. All current/aspiring Product Manager and hiring Managers are welcome!
Ryan is a Sr.…
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Navigating Ambiguities in Understanding Customer Needs: An Insider's Perspective on Product Management
In this talk, I will provide an overview of my professional journey transitioning from a geomatics engineer to a product manager. I will share valuable insights and lessons learned throughout my tenure in the product management field, specifically my experiences at Telus and Amazon. The focus of the talk will be on the importance of building a customer-centric product. To achieve this, I will delve into key strategies for understanding customer needs through conducting user research, analyzing customer feedback and data, and implementing customer development principles. Additionally, I will discuss the importance of fostering a customer-centric culture within an organization,…
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Understand People Better, Build Better Products
Are you a product manager or product leader working with a team of people to achieve something big together within your company?
Are you looking to increase your product usage, satisfaction and overall company growth?
Are you equally passionate about the health of your product people & the products that the teams build?
In this collaborative presentation we will cover practical ways to ask, understand and apply what we learn about each other to build successful products together.
Agenda
- Who are these people?
- How can we understand people better to build better products?
- How do we measure success together?
Looking…
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Women in Product - Q&A Panel
Learn from some of the most successful women in Vancouver's product scene and join the discussion about challenges, advantages and opportunities in Product for women both upcoming and already established in their careers.
What inspired these female leaders to enter the Product Management discipline and what did their journey getting there look like?
What prior work and life experiences set these women up for success in Product?
What excites them most about the Product practice today, new young leaders entering the field and what a fresh perspective from young women could mean for Product in the future?
What has worked…
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Applying Behavioural Science to Improve Your Product
My goal in this presentation is to convince you that behavioural science can improve your product, and to set you on the path to becoming a Behavioural Product Manager. Come and learn the framework used by Irrational Labs to apply behavioural science to product design. Irrational Labs was founded by Dan Ariely (author of Predictably Irrational) and is teaching this framework to the likes of Google, Lyft, Indeed and Microsoft.
Some of the things you would learn:
- Key principles of behavioural design
- The 3Bs framework for applying behavioural design to your product
- Some example cognitive biases that you can apply…
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AI/ML Product Leaders Breakout Sessions
We have assembled an amazing group of facilitators where each group will have at
least one experienced AI/ML PM to help guide the discussions during the breakout
sessions.The format will be the following:
- Short presentation and introduction to the first breakout session
- Breakout Session 1: Responsible AI - how to implement and maintain it
- Short intro to ChatGPT
- Breakout Session 2: Chat GPT - ideation on what we can expect to emerge in the next 2-years
- Recap
The breakout sessions will be 4-6(ish) people per group to discuss the topics and meet
each other. We will change groups for…64 votes