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Propose A Session...
Below is a list of the Sessions that Participants such as yourself have offered to lead. This does not necessarily mean that we'll do these at the event; instead, Proposed Sessions will be voted on by ProductCamp participants, with the most popular sessions getting on the schedule.
If you can't think of a session to lead, check out the section below called "Topics I would like to hear about" for ideas, or check out some of the sessions that were offered at ProductCamps in Silicon Valley and Austin.
| Title | Description | Presenter/Format |
| Cisco I-Prize Contest: Looking for the next "Billion Dollar" Idea | Chris led a diverse team consisting of a steamfitter, dentist, sales guy and network engineer to the finals of Cisco's Global Innovation contest. This session will provide you with an inside look on how this contest was used to help identify Cisco's next billion dollar product line idea. | Chris Herbert (Cisco I-Prize Finalist) |
| Product Management in an Agile World | Many development teams have converted to agile but what does agile mean to product management? Even if your team hasn't converted, how can you use these techniques to deliver better products? | Steve Johnson, Pragmatic Marketing |
Don't want to lead a session? You can still participate by going to the home page and sign up as a volunteer. The PCT Planning Team will find a way you can help!
...Or Suggest A Topic!
Below is a list of topics that you participants have expressed some interest in hearing more about. Please edit this page (use the button at the top) and add your own!
- Product Management: Is it Working in Canadian Companies?
- How to become a Product Manager
- What makes a great Product Manager
- Towards defining a Product Management Manifesto (or something similar)
- Product marketing: How do you generate an effective core message
- The Role of Product Marketing - where does it start, and where does end?
- Competitive Intelligence - how to get it, and how to use it
- Business Case Best Practices
- Pricing
- Roadmapping
- How to get in front of your customers
- Managing Competing Priorities
- Product Management in an Agile Environment
- Distinctive Competence - what is it and how to find it
- Web 2.0 technologies, how to use to market / when does it make sense to incorporate into your product
- Revenue forecasting
- Defining requirements, AKA how to determine what customers really need
- Where will your hit product come from? Read post
- An Innovation Roadmap that's Tuned In. Read post
- Is the 'Perfect Product' leaning towards 'Product Monopoly'?
- Externalities affecting the Perfect Product. Read post
- UX and the Product Manager - how to use and promote usability engineering in your company
- Product Management at a start-up
- The basics of IP and patents for the PM
- Your customers won't TELL you what they need, but they will SHOW you. Here's how to look for the right things.
- Implementing, sustaining and revisiting product processes
- Challenges in technical product management
- Product Management vs/and Product Development
- Product Management vs/and Marketing
- Methods of usability testing
- Maximize internal resources - using Sales and Support to gather customer / product information
- What value does community building have to product management?'
- Surprise! You're a product manager(developer), ok, now what do I do?
- Focus groups and product management
- Sustainable Produce Development
- Challenges of International markets
- Pricing
- Product Scaling
- Finding, scheduling and conducting non-customer intervies.
