I am much delinquent in posting this, but check out the recording from the webinar, Five Common Challenges for Product Managers in Agile Teams, given by Steve Johnson and me on May 22, 2009.

You can hear/view it on Pragmatic Marketing’s website, or on iTunes.  Or, just check out the slides here.

It was really fun to work with Pragmatic Marketing and the super-funny Steve Johnson on this.  And I’ve really enjoyed chatting with some of the listeners in the aftermath of the webinar.

I’d love to hear your feedback in the comments!

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Webinar Recording: Five Common Challenges for Product Managers in Agile Team

On May 22 at 10am PST, I’m giving a webinar with the always-hilarious Steve Johnson of Pragmatic Marketing.

The topic?  Agile Product Management and “Five Common Challenges” organizations face when transitioning from a waterfall software development model to an Agile model.

Here’s the official blurb (also on Pragmatic Marketing’s website):

Agile is all the rage – developers are using it to deliver products more quickly and more reliably. But many organizations will find that their initial success with Agile is unsustainable unless they address how Agile impacts the rest of the organization, including product management. In this webinar, Sue and Steve will discuss five common challenges faced by newly “agilized” organizations and will propose solutions.

Interested?  Sign up here: Five Common Challenges for Product Managers in Agile Teams.

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Join us! Free webinar on Agile Product Management, 5/22

I’ve been quite remiss in posting my slides from my “Charm School for Product Managers” presentation that I gave at P-Camp Silicon Valley.  Sorry about the delay.

In the session, we had a great discussion about how to handle sticky situations product managers find themselves in every day.  One example: how to handle a customer who demands a definitive release date and feature list when it is too early for you to know.  Another situation: dealing with situations when Sales has misrepresented the product to the customer.

Thanks to Enthiosys for putting on such a great event.  I met a lot of great product managers and product marketers at P-Camp Silicon Valley – over 350 were in attendance!   Looking forward to the next one…

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P-Camp Presentation: Charm School for Product Managers

Sure Product Consulting is proud to sponsor the “Second Annual P-Camp Unconference for Product Managers.”  There are two great things about P-Camp:

1. It’s FREE
2. It’s chock-full of education, networking, and learning about software product management best practices from your peers and product managment thought leaders.

 Here’s the official blurb:

Join more than 300 friends, colleagues and perfect strangers at the second annual Silicon Valley P-Camp Unconference for product managers. 

 What is P-Camp?

The world’s largest free get-together of product managers.  Based on the successful BarCamp and Open Space formats, it is an intense ad hoc gathering of product folks to share, present, network, learn, laugh and discuss.  Much of the agenda will be created by you on the morning of the event, so bring ideas for discussions that you want to participate in.

When:  Saturday, March 14, 2009, 9AM to 4PM

Where:  Yahoo! headquarters, Building C, 701 First St, Sunnyvale

Cost:  FREE!   Includes lunch and a P-Camp t-shirt

Registration: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=168526

More information: http://www.enthiosys.com/news-events/pcamp09/

Volunteers and Sponsors:  contact Sergey Gorbatov, sgorbatov@enthiosys.com

 Partial list of proposed talks and panels so far:

 Nancy Frishberg – Innovation Games session.
Erin Kinikin – “Working With Analysts” – panel
Chris Sims – “Agile 101″
Joy Montgomery – “If You Want to Hit the Deck Running, There Has to Be a Deck!”
Nils Davis – “What do you use for requirements management?”
Meghan Ede – Topics TBD
Jim Holland / Michael Hopkin – Market Sensing – a Case Study
Rich Mironov – “How Agile Changes The Way You Do Product Management”
Ross Mayfield -”Using Social Media and Wikis in Product Management” – panel
Mara Krieps / Linda Merrick -”Agile Product Management: The Rosetta Stone”
Catherine Connor – “Agile Product Management and CRM”
David Taber – “Design your customer before you design your product”
Luke Hohmann – “Shaping Your Products With Prune The Product Tree”

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Sure Product Consulting is sponsoring “P-Camp Unconference for Product Managers”