Global Product Management Talk

In today's globalized environment we are all expected to be global Product Managers working with people from very different beliefs about work. India and the US are almost exactly opposite in their business preferences. These preferences show up when organizing a meeting, inside virtual environments like wiki's, deadlines being missed, product deliverables being wrong, and low levels of team retention. Brandi Moore, Founder of IndiaThink and the first American focused on building global business relationships between India and the US, will join us to discuss the challenges product managers face and offer perspectives on how culture may be at the root of many business problems. "Our conversation will offer insights to a community that is stepping into global management on a daily basis and needs to understand how India's business preferences are very different, impacting everything that happens during product development cycles."

Mack McCoy insists, “If you think you’re just selling a product, you’re wrong!  Customers have moved on. They see BRANDS as services and products as a component of the relationship they have with a variety of brands at any given time. Everything is migrating into a service. Customers still buy individual products, but their experience IS your brand impression - the product is important but it’s only a part of their entire relationship.” Follow @ProdMgmtTalk hashtag #ProdMgmtTalk 

Jen Leibhart and Liz Blink talk about their experience at Product Camp Melbourne this past weekend. http://www.pcampmelbourne.com

Tim Returns after Laser Surgery for Dissecting MABUSHI with a Laser MABUSHI is the bane of product marketing and continues to run rampant, especially in the high-tech space. It's altogether too easy to get excited about a new feature set but customers rarely buy feature sets - they usually buy solutions to their problems. Effective product marketers truly recognize how their products address those problems. This session will focus on how to cut through your own fluff and get to who really cares and what's important to them. Tim C. Johnson is a Product Marketing expert and Author of the "It's About Value" product marketing blog dedicated to ridding the world of MABUSHI (look up the definition at value-prodmktg.blogspot.com). Johnson has 20+ years of sales and marketing experience in software ranging from end-user applications to development tools, databases, ERP, systems management, security and cloud Background resources: http://pack.li/21

Tom Evans, Sessions Chair at Product Camp Austin talks about the principles of "Teach, Learn, Network", what makes PCamp Austin unique and what enables it to happen every 6 months. He describes Product Manager Smackdowns, The Great Debate, Power Point Kareoke, GameTrack, Speed Networking, Product Potlucks. He gives insight into PCamp Austin's "road map" for sustaining momentum, mentoring future board members, distributing the work load and keeping sessions fun and innovative. 

According to Matt Howell, “This session will be an open discussion to uncover best practices in roadmap maintenance, with the goal of surfacing new successful patterns among the variety of industries represented by #ProdMgmtTalk's community.” “Working with the Global Product Management Talk group has been an essential component of building my network on Twitter.  The weekly sessions continue to provide immense value to both new and veteran Product Managers,”

We are pleased to welcome Erika L. Andersen who is jumping in at the last moment to lead our discussion and get her questions answered!  Today's speaker, Tim C. Johnson, had a medical emergency & will be rescheduled.   Lawyers have to specialize in order to survive, and I’m a generalist, I like to do it all. When I was a lawyer, I was involved in a case that required someone who understood markets, technology, accounting and could translate details between various people. I had to figure out the technology, which I did talking to Product Managers and then translate it for the lawyers, accountants, economists and others involved in the $1 billion case. That was the perfect entry into looking at Product Management as a perfect fit for my skill set.   @ErikaLAndersen  http://www.linkedin.com/in/erikaandersen questions:  http://bit.ly/pw6uFB

Road to ProductCamp SoCal, October 15, 2011 with Greg White @GregWhiteOC  Mack McCoy @Mack_McCoy & host Cindy F. Solomon @cindyfsolomon Listen to Greg & Mack's take on Product Camp best practices, motivations, mentors, passion, lessons learned, creating community & engaging participation!  Follow @ProdCampSoCal use #PCSC  Global List of Product Camps & Events: http://bit.ly/p7BHsM

Product Camp Radio, Premier episode on Preparing for Product Camp Austin with Larry McKeogh http://productcampaustin.org Larry McKeogh on planning his presentation "The Product Of You" http://ow.ly/5UfSa  at  #PCATX #prodcareer   The Product of You – How are you managing it? Look at the news these days from the most dynamic sector of the U.S. economy — Silicon Valley. Facebook is now valued near $100 billion, Twitter at $8 billion, Groupon at $30 billion, Zynga at $20 billion and LinkedIn at $8 billion. These are the fastest-growing Internet/social networking companies in the world, and here’s what’s scary: You could easily fit all their employees together into the 20,000 seats in Madison Square Garden, and still have room for grandma. They just don’t employ a lot of people, relative to their valuations, and while they’re all hiring today, they are largely looking for talented engineers.   Larry’s background includes hardware design, both hardware & software product management. He's passionate about improving the role & effectiveness of product management within the organization. http://www.linkedin.com/in/larrymckeogh   Global List of Product Camps & Events: http://bit.ly/p7BHsM

Gopal Shenoy is a seasoned software product management veteran with over 15 years of experience managing highly successful B2B and B2C software products.  ”As software product managers, understanding your competition needs to be a very important ingredient of your work DNA”, suggests Gopal.  His personal blog "Software Product Manager" at http://www.productmanagementtips.com is rated as one of the top product management blogs in the world.  “I’m delighted to discuss this topic in a Socratic manner on Twitter with an international community of product managers.  The Global Product Management Talk is like a weekly mini-product camp where participants share their knowledge, and I get to ask the questions and comment.  I’m looking forward to also having my discussion with the co-hosts be available on Blogtalkradio.com along with the transcript following the event.”  Resources: http://bit.ly/tCimVt

Jock Busuttil, Senior Product Manager, Experian, London, Leads Twitter Discussion On The Pivotal Role Product Management Plays In Supporting Effective Sales Teams "The effectiveness of your organisation’s sales force ultimately determines whether your carefully-crafted product is a roaring success or an abject failure.  As product managers and marketers, you play a pivotal role in helping your sales teams realise the potential of your products.  We’ll be exploring what you can and should be doing." (The views expressed by Jock are his own and do not reflect those of his employer.)   Resources: http://bit.ly/LpU3Zr