Upcoming live talks – September and October 2020

I’m giving some more live talks in September and October. The first is for ProdPad’s regular webinar series. I’m also giving a series of four talks on Tuesdays in October for my Product Management Digital Masterclass.

Read on for talk details and how to attend.

Tuesday 22nd September: ProdPad Webinar #

ProdPad is the brainchild of Janna Bastow and Simon Cast, names you’ll likely have heard in connection with their other little venture, Mind The Product. I’ll be joining Andrea Saez on their monthly webinar to talk about how product works in government.

The talk will be called Open, Honest and Always Improving and will cover:

• Why working in the open is beneficial for any organisation
• How to keep yourselves honest through peer reviews and published results
• How continuous improvement can apply to people as well as products

You can now watch a video of the talk, slides also available.

Friday 25th September: Trends and Benchmarks in Product Management Webinar #

Growing Together: Developing and Retaining your Product Team

34.2% of PMs said they left their previous role because there were no opportunities to grow.

• But what does product management growth look like?
• How can product leads create opportunities for their PMs to grow?
• How can PMs create conversations around growth with their leads?
• And how can PMs create their own growth opportunities?

Lucie McLean from Zalando will be joined by Jock Busuttil, freelance Head of Product and author and Daniil Pavliuchkov, Senior Product Manager at Tier mobility to talk about ways to enable growth and build happy, empowered product teams.

You can now watch a video of this talk.

Tuesdays in October: Product Management Digital Masterclass #

I’ll be running a series of four live sessions on Tuesdays in October. Each conference-style talk will be 45 minutes with over an hour of Q&A with me afterwards.

6th October 2020: What Does a Product Manager Do (And Not Do)? #

16:00 (London BST) / 11:00 (New York EDT) #

A worrying number of product managers I’ve met will admit they started out in the same way: they turned up at work one day and were told by their manager, “You’re the product manager now.” The problem? Neither they nor their manager really knew what a product manager was supposed to do! This session will fix that.

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13th October 2020: Understanding User Needs #

16:00 (London BST) / 11:00 (New York EDT) #

One of the most fundamental aspects of product management is to understand user needs and satisfy them with the product. This talk describes the what, why and how of understanding user needs.

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20th October 2020: The Secrets of Meaningful Product Roadmaps #

15:00 (London BST) / 10:00 (New York EDT) #

Every product needs a roadmap, but most are useless and a waste of everyone’s time. Why? Because too often people misunderstand what roadmaps are for, and include the wrong information. This talk shares the secrets of making your product roadmap one of the most effective tools in your product manager kit bag.

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27th October 2020: Landing and Starting Your Product Manager Job #

15:00 (London GMT) / 11:00 (New York EDT) #

So you want to be a product manager? Learn what interviewers are looking for from someone who’s personally assessed hundreds of candidates, and how to start your new job on the right foot.

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