May 21, 2012 - It’s time for people looking for a career tune-up in this troubled economy to register for camp. Silicon Valley Code Camp (www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com) is a free – yes, free – weekend conference October 6 and 7, 2012, for all software developers who want to share information, network, and learn new skills.

Global Product Management Talk is curating the first product management track at Silicon Valley Code Camp.  There is opportunity for a total of 9 sessions to comprise the Product Management Track - up to 5 product management sessions on Saturday, October 6 and an additional 4 sessions on Sunday, October 7.  

Product management is a business optimization function that oversees technology and product all the way from development through product launch, market, delivery and later sunsetting.  Product Management is becoming more mainstream.  Software development teams benefit from understanding product management principles and the product management lifecycle beyond the development stage. Product Management is often a career path for developers who want to more strategically affect product outcomes and the business case.  There are unique challenges, opportunities and rigor necessary at each phase of the product lifecycle that necessitate different tools to discern threats, respond effectively to opportunities, and nimbly identify appropriate procedures within each phase.

Businesses where software developer teams understand the product management function and product management teams are well defined, guarantee successful products are delivered that delight customers and increase revenue. 

For Product Camp presenters, most sessions appropriate for Product Camp, will also be welcome at Code Camp based on past year session titles.

More info from Code Camp:

Code Camp is a new type of all-volunteer “community event” where developers learn from fellow developers. This is the seventh year for Code Camp, and its popularity continues to grow. More than 2,250 people attended last year, and over 200 sessions were conducted.

The location for this Saturday-Sunday meeting remains the same: Foothill College in Los Altos, Calif. And everything is free – from registration to coffee and lunch.

Sessions at Code Camp range from informal “chalk talks” to formal presentations, and the speakers are mixed, from experts used to sharing their knowledge to people with a unique skill they’ve never shared before. Each session lasts 75 minutes.

Silicon Valley Code Camp 2012 is looking for outstanding presentations covering a wide variety of topics. The theme of these topics needs to have something to do with the technical community and preferably be directly or indirectly related to code. We pride ourselves in being vendor agnostic so it does not matter whether you are Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison or Bill Gates, we want you to come and present at our camp. We expect a wide variety of speakers with skills ranging from full time professional speakers to first timers. We actually encourage first time speakers so if you have not spoken before, please have a go! We review the sessions posted and for the most part take them as is, though we may contact you for alterations or further discussions as necessary.

Typically, we accept one presentation per presenter, however we do make exceptions so feel free to contact us if you feel the need to do more than one and we will try to be accommodating. We only have so much capacity so it is not always under our direct control. Feel free to contact us at service@siliconvalley-codecamp.com if you have any questions. We typically close session submission about 6 weeks before the event so if you want to have the best chance of presenting, you had better submit your session soon. Once you submit it, it will immediately become live on our site so make sure you think carefully about your words before pressing the submit button.

For more information on registering, speaking and sessions:

http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Faq.aspx

To be included in the Product Management Track

1. Submit a session http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/SubmitSession.aspx

2. Identify "Product Management" in the text box for category and choose 6 additional categories

3. Fill in "captcha control" and hit submit

4. Email Cindy@Prodmgmttalk.com with your session information

Sponsors are welcome!

http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Sponsors.aspx

By Kimberley Chan on November 23, 2011   Reposted From http://bit.ly/tTLhR2

BlogTalkRadio, the largest and fastest growing online talk radio network, has added a new, live product management-related talk show to its growing list of informative broadcasts. 

OneDesk was honored to be featured in the premiere episode of Global Product Management’s Tools of the Trade, hosted by Cindy F. Solomon.

A product manager with many years of experience, knowledge and leadership in the field, Solomon chatted with Derek Gold, our Vice-President of Product Marketing, and Catherine Constantinides, our Social Media Marketer about the benefits of using OneDesk for product management.

With Tools of the Trade, Solomon informs those in the product management field about the best tools, methods and approaches for their busy lives. She presents up-and-coming products and services and looks into their advantages, while providing advice on how they can improve their product management process.

Listen to the episode on BlogTalkRadio and find out what Solomon learns and thinks about our feature-rich application.

Learn more about:
The Global Product Management Talk 
Tools of the Trade 
BlogTalkRadio

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 12, 2011 – San Francisco, CA, USA — Jennifer Doctor explains that product marketing exists to defend and uphold the buyer’s voice by injecting the target market’s issues in a balanced way throughout the entire product development process.  Product Marketing is often stuck in the unenviable position of defending its value within the organization.  Sales is focused on closing deals, marketing communications produces collateral, product development is busy building the product, and senior leadership guides the vision.  

“Only product marketing managers capture unique information about the voice of the customer and develop strategies based on solving identified customer problems that ultimately result in increased revenue,” states Doctor, the first woman to lead the Global Product Management Talk discussion on Twitter.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

July 5, 2011 – San Francisco, CA, USA —Scrum is a loose set of guidelines that govern the development process of a product, from its design stages to its completion. The scrum team is a self-organizing, cross-functional team supported by a Scrum Master and a product owner. The product owner represents the business, customers or users and guides the team toward building the right product.

Lance Knight, Certified Scrum Master as well as Certified Scrum Professional, explains that while the Scrum Master focuses on helping the team be the best that it can be, the product owner works to direct the team towards the right goal. The product owner creates and conveys a compelling vision of the product and  ensures that the product backlog remains prioritized as more is learned about the system being built, its users, the team, and so on.

Each week, The Global Product Management Talk features an expert guest speaker who raises questions to stimulate the twitter discussion in response to questions pre-posted on Facebook.   

Over the past six years Lance Knight has consulted with Nokia, Oracle and other companies about Agile product management and product planning. As Senior Director of Global Solutions Engineering at Accept Corporation, Knight provides presales solution consulting to help companies deliver better products to market faster.  A Certified Scrum Master as well as Certified Scrum Professional, he has written numerous blog articles on Agile software development and what that means to the new product planning paradigm.

Knight will be "speaking" at the weekly Global Product Management Talk Twitter event on Monday, July 11, 2011 at 4:00 PM Pacific Time, which will be Tuesday, July 12 at 10:00 AM Australian Time. 

“This is a very interesting topic because as Agile becomes more mature, these are questions that need to be answered in order to guarantee successful Agile deployment,” said Lance Knight. “The Global Product Management Talk on twitter provides the opportunity for product managers in both small and big companies to share their direct experience about who owns this process and how they respond to this dilemma.”

Tweet traveled 7400 miles 

The Global Product Management Talk was conceived by Cindy F. Solomon, a San Francisco Bay Area certified product manager who provides strategic product marketing and creates knowledge communities and embraced by Adrienne Tan, founder of brainmates, an Australian product management company, to bring international product managers together with experts in the field. 

The Global Product Management Talk on twitter, since its inception in February 2011, has had a clear focus on addressing the needs of international hi-tech professionals within product management, product marketing and related professional domains. It is the largest twitter chat with this focus in the world. Weekly up to 50 product people are engaged live during the discussion, with re-tweets occurring for days and weeks following.   

Weekly, Solomon curates the guest speakers, identifies the Twitter talk focus and posts questions to ponder, inviting participation via social media. The speaker is invited to join a Skype conference call during the event to discuss twitter comments, although active participation is taking place digitally within the twitter stream. After the event, the transcript is made available and participants are encouraged to expand upon their statements and insights by blogging to continue the conversation.  All of the content from the event is packaged into an eBook to further extend the value and reach of the subject matter. 

About ProdMgmtTalk: 
The Global Product Management Talk brings international product managers together with experts in the field weekly in a twitter chat format on Mondays, 4:00 - 5:00 PM PT Co-hosted by Cindy F. Solomon and Adrienne Tan, who interview a Product Management evangelist that leads the discussion about a particular topic. The Product Management expert tweets answers to pre-posted questions during the hour, while everyone chimes in on the tweet stream. After the event, the transcript is made available and participants are encouraged to expand upon their statements and insights by blogging to continue the conversation. 

About Lance Knight

Lance Knight is the Senior Director of Global Solutions Engineering at Accept Corporation providing presales solution consulting, presales engagement, certified Agile analysis, and investigation. Over the past six years, Lance Knight has consulted with Nokia, Oracle and other companies about product management and product planning. A Certified Scrum Master as well as Certified Scrum Professional, he has written numerous blog articles on Agile software development and what that means to the new product planning paradigm. Knight started three companies and brought their products/services to market. Calling on years of business experience, Lance has, at one time or another, been called: top-performing executive-level software sales professional, corporate project manager, entrepreneur / CEO, software developer, corporate marketing manager, and many others. His specialty lies in the ability to conceptualize what’s needed on a large scale, and then lead the project to a successful conclusion; while his skill for successfully bridging the gap between solutions and technology brings a decidedly left and right brain approach.

Contact: 

Lknight at accept360 dot com
On Twitter: @ lancedknight

http://www.linkedin.com/in/lancedknight

About brainmates: 
Founded by Adrienne Tan and Nick Coster in 2004, the two devised a mission to help companies understand their customers’ needs and develop innovative products that their customers love. With over 20 years of Product Management experience, they lead a dedicated team of Product Managers who are committed to providing services to clients to do just that. 
Contact: 
brainmates - product management people 
suite 906, level 9 
84 Pitt street 
Sydney nsw 2000 
61(2)9232-8147 
http://www.brainmates.com.au 
@brainmates 

Product Talks 
http://www.brainmates.com.au/about-us/our-calendar/produ ... 

About Cindy F. Solomon: 
Cindy F. Solomon has held tech marketing management positions with Apple, Vadem, NetObjects and several start-ups. Cindy is a Certified Product Manager and Certified Product Marketing Manager who provides soup to nuts product marketing strategy and social media implementation. 
Contact: 
Cindy F. Solomon 
http://www.cindyfsolomon.com 
cfsolomon@gmail.com 
@cindyfsolomon 
510-779-0175 

San Francisco Product Talks 
http://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Product-Talks/ 

Product ShootOuts http://bit.ly/mBRMSj 
Product Duels http://bit.ly/ikgH6B 

Contact: 
pr@prodmgmttalk.com

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Global Product Management Talk weekly twitter chat Mondays 4-5 PM PDT Thought leader answers preposted questions. Follow @prodmgmttalk on twitter. Use #ProdMgmtTalk to show up in discussion. Visit http://www.prodmgmttalk.com for speaker & topic schedule.

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