Global Product Management Talk

API As A Product - Opening up Businesses & Providing Avenues for Growth   Most APIs support a company's product, like how a variety of applications can access Twitter content. There's a new breed of API that isn't supporting a product, but instead supporting the entire business. In these cases, the API is the product and the product helps developers solve a problem, which means developers are happy to pay.    Delyn Simons heads up developer outreach at Mashery, where she and her merry band of evangelists engage directly with Mashery’s growing network of 216,000 API key-wielding developers. Mashery’s API ecosystem also includes 175+ businesses looking to partner with developers inside and outside the walls of their companies, including Klout, ESPN, Coca-Cola, USA TODAY, Expedia, and The New York Times. Mashery offers API management, services and strategy for companies that are transforming their products into platforms. Prior to Mashery, Delyn worked at eBay, CMP Media, Insero and Well Engaged/The Well.   Delyn is speaking at the Startup Product Summit SF2 on October 12, 2013 at Broadway Studios in San Francisco which is like Tedtalks for Product excellence. Learn about managing products to success at Product Bootcamp San Francisco Oct 10-12! http://bit.ly/14ZagOP More information, registration and sponsorship opportunities available at http://startupproduct.com

Brainrants from Brainmates Inaugural Show with Adrienne Tan, Nick Coster and Natalie Yan-Chatonsky   "New and Old Product Management", language was raised at the 2013 Product Management Festival in Zurich. 1. Is there such a thing as Old and New Product Management? 2. Why is this language emerging? 3. What does it mean for the Product profession? 4. What benefits does it drive? 5. What are the issues when we use this language?  http://www.brainmates.com  @brainmates music "Hurricane" intro courtesy of @BlameSally

Effective product teams not only understand which set of features must be present to justify a release, they have taken the time to carefully enumerate the ranking of each. A product backlog is a prioritized list of all the features and functionality needed to complete a project. A good product backlog is at the heart of any well-functioning agile team. A good product backlog does not automatically ensure good software. However, the lack of a good product backlog often results in incomplete software that does not meet the requirements of customers and stakeholders. The most effective product teams can demonstrate how their prioritization supports larger business priorities (and when the business priorities aren’t clear, these teams clarify them!).   Amy is speakering at ProductCampSF http://pcampsf.com   Learn about managing products to success at Product Bootcamp San Francisco Oct 10-12! http://bit.ly/14ZagOP Oct 10: Workshop Day: competitive space & Lean startup way. http://bit.ly/14SMcaC Oct 11 Startup Product Summit SF2 lightning talks w/experts & practitioners.http://bit.ly/1bvsOFm Oct 12 ProductCamp San Francisco! true community unconference http://pcampsf.com http://startupproduct.com

Teresa Torres, Vice President, Products, AfterCollege, Inc discusses Developing Product Expertise "I've met countless product professionals who are interested in mastering their craft. One of the most common questions I get is, how do we get better at building great products. We'll explore these questions and many more in this one hour chat." Resources: http://bit.ly/1afTmJL Teresa is speaking at Startup Product Summit SF2. Learn about managing products to success at Product Bootcamp San Francisco Oct 10-12! http://bit.ly/14ZagOP   Oct 10: Workshop Day: competitive space & Lean startup way. http://bit.ly/14SMcaC   Oct 11 Startup Product Summit SF2 lightning talks w/experts & practitioners.http://bit.ly/1bvsOFm   Oct 12 ProductCamp San Francisco! true community unconference http://pcampsf.com  http://startupproduct.com

Data Informed Product ManagementAccording to Jason Shah, Product Management is the process of building, testing, measuring, and maintaining good software. Geoffrey Moore, who wrote Crossing the Chasm, says, "You actually have your hand on the tiller that changes the fate of your company. So its an amazing priviledge to work in a high tech company because the amount of power you get, particularly if you can get into this role of product marketing and product management..." is the ability to affect the direction of the product.   Resources: http://bit.ly/1aDqImT  Jason is speaking at Startup Product Summit SF2 which is like Tedtalks for Product excellence:  Learn about managing products to success at Product Bootcamp San Francisco Oct 10-12! http://bit.ly/14ZagO   Oct 10: Competitive space & Lean startup workshops http://bit.ly/14SMcaC Oct 11 Startup Product Summit SF2 http://bit.ly/1bvsOFm Oct 12 ProductCamp San Francisco unconference http://pcampsf.com

Greg Geracie, President of Actuation Consulting, will discuss the newly available ProdBOK, The Product Management Body of Knowledge!  For the last three years approximately sixty of the industry’s leading product professionals banded together and contributed to the development of the ProdBOK Guide. The goal? To distill a collaborative cornerstone that can be built upon to ensure that the product management profession better supports the needs of the product community at large.  Resources: http://bit.ly/181Zwvu Learn about managing products to success at Product Bootcamp San Francisco Oct 10-12!http://bit.ly/14ZagOP Oct 10: workshops re: competitive space & Lean startup way. http://bit.ly/14SMcaC Oct 11 Startup Product Summit SF2 lightning talks w/experts & practitioners.http://bit.ly/1bvsOFm Oct 12 Product Camp San Francisco! true community unconference: You propose topics & present http://pcampsf.com

Soft Touch Product Management for Small Teams Or Managing through LOLcats   On small teams, the product manager often functions as product manager, project manager, scrum master, product owner, QA manager, analytics department, and coffee guy. How do you keep all the stakeholders happy? How do you avoid meltdowns and temper tantrums (including your own)? A sense of humor and a good GIF collection can help.    Barbara says, "As a product team of one I always love tuning in to Global Product Management Talk as a chance to check in with "my people." I've been a pretty passive voice in the community to date, so I'm looking forward to diving in the deep end!"   Barbara North, Director of Product at FORA.tv has worked on a wide variety of projects, including a website that allows you to customize letterpress stationery, mobile friendly social games, music driven photo slide shows, and a mobile social network. She currently serves as the Director of Product at FORA.tv helping conference and event organizers produce, distribute, and monitize their video content.    Barbara attended the first and is registered for the next Startup Product Summit SF2! Register today to network with Barbara and be shoulder to shoulder with the best and the brightest product leaders sharing their experience so you can stand on their shoulders to forward your product, startup and career! http://bit.ly/16qfEKp

Tatiana Josephy studied public policy, ethics, and development in college and considered becoming a director, but saw a strong similarity between product management and directing.  She'll discuss Being A Woman In Technology, Bootstrapping A Mobile Application, And Agile Culture   She pushed back a sprint to join host Cindy F. Solomon in honor of Women in Product month on the Global Product Management Talk.   Tatiana is speaking at Startup Product Summit SF2 Oct 11, 2013 Register now for best price: http://startupproduct.com   Product Weekend San Francisco - Oct 10-12, 2013 trainings, Summit, Afterparty, Product Camp San Francisco   Resources: http://bit.ly/1bEa6eS

Stephanie Geerlings, Builder, Hacker, Entrepreneur, PM, and Prime Minister for Cloud City, has grown companies from $3k-3M+ and teams from 3-50. She's built software, hardware, large steel machine sculptures, and has done 3-D, print, and web design and branding for Fortune 500s. Because of her background on various quickly moving projects she used to claim that the startup life was the easiest she's ever experienced. "Just working for one company—that's nice." Stephanie's values are core to how she works. She's overly honest, cares about intention, and believes in people. "Our work is to solve problems. Problems get solved—by thinking it through and applying best practices in a flexible way. Not all clients requirements are the same. We design and engineer the solution."  Stephanie is speaking at Startup Product Summit SF2 Oct 11, 2013 Register today for best price: http://startupproduct.com Product Weekend San Francisco - Oct 10-12, 2013 trainings, Summit, Afterparty, Product Camp San Francisco Resources: http://bit.ly/141zp56

Tatiana Mulry will discuss her new book, The Cause, which represents 20 years of corporate marketing campaign experience distilled into simple lessons that will transform the way you communicate about your organization to make a greater difference in people's lives.   Resources: http://bit.ly/17YuipB   REGISTER TODAY! Startup Product Summit SF2 October 11, 2013  http://bit.ly/11fNVcU http://startupproduct.com http://