How do you define product management? What does it mean to be a product manager?

Suggested Agenda:

6:30 - 7:00   Arrive, Sign in:  Pizza & Beers

---------Use White Board to Post Topics, Questions, Jobs & Seekers

7:00 - 7:15   Welcome from Nick & Cindy

7:15 - 7:30   Unconference format: vote on questions to discuss

7:30 - 8:30   Rich Mironov, Author of The Art of Product Management, Lessons from a Silicon Valley Innovator provides context & answers in open format

8:30 - 9:00   Open Discussion in Group / Suggestions for next meeting

9:00 - 9:15   1 minute pitches: positions available/who is seeking

9:15 - end     Networking

About Rich Mironov:

Rich Mironov is a seasoned software executive and serial entrepreneur. He?s held the position of the "product guy" at six tech startups including as CEO and VP Marketing/ Products. Rich founded the first Product Camp, now a world-wide movement of semi-unstructured get-togethers that provide product managers opportunity to network, teach, learn and share. Product Bytes is his long-running series on software, start-ups, product strategies, Silicon Valley, and the inner life of product managers. Rich?s book, ?The Art of Product Management? captures the best of Product Bytes and represents the scrappy entrepreneur in all of us. Rich guest lectures at business schools and executive education programs around the world, has served on the board of the Silicon Valley Product Management Association and chaired the first product manager/ product owner tracks at Agile Alliance?s annual conference. Rich has a BS Physics from Yale and an MBA from Stanford. He is an in-demand speaker for business, executive and technical audiences. http://mironov.com/

Please thank our host, Atlassian for beer & drinks!

Thanks to AIPMM,

Association of International Product Marketing & Management for Pizza!