BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees. A ProductCamp is BarCamp for product manager and marketers.
There have recently been several very succesful product camps, for example in Austin and Toronto. And in Amsterdam we have had many succesful tech conferences. There is the general TheNextWeb conference and several developer-oriented gatherings like Fronteers and Kings of Code.
So I thought it was high time for an unconference for us product managers and marketers, and created this page. To get things started I created this page, emailed some product people I know to find out about interested and proposed a date - Sunday 18 October.
Most important thing now is to get in touch with all people who are interested in participating - presenting a session or just attending. Please drop me an email at mark (at) agilician (dot) com if you are interested or simply want to be kept in the loop!
Mark Schiefelbein
mark (at) agilician (dot) com
Event details
When
- Proposed date is Sunday 18 October
- Weekends, especially Sundays seem to work best for unconferences.
- Mid / late October leaves enought time to get organized.
- An international product management conference is held in Amsterdam on 21/22 October (http://www.practicalproductlines.org/ppl2009/)
- Proposals for other dates welcome!
Where
- No idea - venue needs to be cheap / affordable and be able to accomodate 50-100 people in one large gathering area and 2-3 smaller rooms for sessions.
- Who can help with finding a venue?
Sponsors
Xavier Baars will organize sponsoring. If you are interested in sponsoring the Product Camp Amsterdam, please get in touch with Xavier at x (dot) baars (at) mimicmedia (dot).nl
Schedule
Proposed Sessions
Topics I would like to hear about
- Hiring : how to find a good product manager. Inspired by this interesting post about non-useless interview questions for product managers http://www.cindyalvarez.com/blog/psychology/8-non-useless-interview-questions-for-product-managers
- Tutorial on product pricing. Good start is here: http://onstartups.com/tabid/3339/bid/174/Startup-Tips-for-Enterprise-Software-Pricing.aspx
- Online business models: which ones do exist? and which work in what situation?
- Product Marketing and Product Management : Two functions? Tension? Synergy?
- How to build and leverage successful online communities? Consumer vs business.
- A Visionary, Diplomatic Communicator : how to make decisions that fit the long term strategy and still keep everybody happy today
- Buillding a product heartbeat: how do YOU slice and prioritize requirements into releases in a Roadmap
- Agile Experiences : Do's and Don'ts, What is the minimal setup / process and organization required?
- Product management tools? What do you use? Highrise, Basecamp, JIRA, Wikis, Excel, etc.
- add your topic...
Organizers / Volunteers
- Initiator: Mark Schiefelbein, mark (at) agilician (dot) com, http://www.linkedin.com/in/mschiefelbein
- Sponsoring: Xavier Baars, Founder at MimicMedia, http://www.linkedin.com/in/xavierbaars
- Sessions, Sponsoring: Jaco van Wilgenburgh, Enterprise Strategy Consultant at Microsoft, Jaco (at) vanWilgenburgh (dot) nl, http://www.linkedin.com/in/jacovanwilgenburgh
- Venue: Amoor Avakian, Product Manager at Easy to Book, http://www.linkedin.com/in/avakian
Participants (aka Campers)
Task List
(please -cross out- when it's done)
Promotion
- Create mailing list
- Tag (Twitter, Flickr, etc.) = #procamp
- Blog posts
Tech
- Wifi
- Projector, White Boards
- Photo
- Video
- Audio
- Streaming or Stickam or Skype
Non-tech
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Coffee/Tea
- Tables and chairs
