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Date: Thursday June 26th, 2008Time:
6:30 PM networking, talk 7:00 – 8:15 PM |
Topic: Product Management and
Marketing in an Agile World |
Steve Johnson, Pragmatic Marketing
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presentation here |
PRESENTATION:
Agile development methods are now taking the world by storm. Good
news!
We can ship more products more often! Bad news! We can ship more
products more often--so how can we in product management and
marketing keep up? This session will introduce tips for product
management and marketing in an agile environment.
About the Speaker:
Steve has been a Pragmatic Marketing instructor for more than 10
years and has personally trained thousands of product managers and
hundreds of company senior executive teams on strategies for
creating products that people want to buy. He teaches several top-
rated seminars including Practical Product Management and
Requirements That Work as well as many on-site workshops.
Location: Amdocs UK Ltd,
London Road, Reading (see the UKPMF website for detailed directions:
www.ukpmf.org.uk). Please RSVP to snesbitt@amdocs.com if you are
planning to attend or if you are interested in attending the event
remotely. |
Thursday 29th November 2007
LONDON - Hilton Hotel, Paddington
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'Ten steps to better product management' |
Andy Gurd, Telelogic |
Hilton Hotel, Paddington, London.
Andy Gurd speaking on 'Ten
steps to better product management' which will include a case
study..
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Tuesday 19th September 2007
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Profit-Driven Innovation with Hugh Richards |
Hugh Richards, Product Point Group.
Speaker bio:
Hugh is the Managing Director for Product Point Group (www.productpointgroup.com)
- and a regular speaker in the product marketing/management
community. Hugh has held roles in marketing, operations and product
management at QuIC Financial Technologies, Selkirk (now Thomson
Financial), and SunGard Data Systems; Hugh has been responsible for
strategic and tactical product management, and customer/partner
development for risk technology products. Hugh brings over 15 years
of experience in the software operations business, championing
product operations for technology solutions and managing complex
multi-level product lines. Prior to vendor software management, Hugh
has also led in the risk management departments of investment banks
including BZW and NatWest.
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While innovation is key to competitiveness, many organizations
underestimate the impact to existing and established operations, and
how change may come at the cost of profitability. To ensure that the
strategic plan does not confuse activity with progress, successful
companies examine the full impact of any form of innovation, across
each area of the company. Consolidated analysis from each touch
point with the market is both key to identifying innovation
opportunity and equally testing the potential value of it.
Incorporating the strategic intent into a roadmap that can
articulate both the value and impact to employees, clients, partners
or investors -- is a key to profitability.
This presentation will discuss how successful companies incorporate
product operations into profit-driven innovation and explore:
- The aspects that drive early versus sustainable revenue
- The disconnected roles of innovation, operational planning and
value articulation
- How companies avoid innovation traps while effectively serving the
existing business |
Thursday 7th June 2007
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"UK Product Management - Is it Working ?" |
Andrew Dickenson, Product Focus
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This session will look at the the
results into a survey of Product Management in the UK Telecoms and
Software sectors carried out by Product Focus.
The goal was to find out:
- What UK Producct Managers are
doing
- How well they are doing
- The issues and gaps they
perceive
Our speaker will discuss the
results of the survey and will look at the future of Product
Management ni the UK.
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Wednesday 21st March 2007
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Title: Enabling and Empowering Product Management in a small ISV
environment - a case study
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Ian Mapp, Head of Product Management, Respond-UK |
Meeting sponsored by
Feature Plan
LOCATION: LONDON Hilton Hotel, Paddington
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Thursday January 4th 2007 |
Pricing: Panel Discussion |
Cathy Brode, UKPMF Management Team
Aviv Handler, Coherence Consulting Limited
Laurent Seraphin, Borland
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Aviv - Coherence
Cathy
Brodie
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PANEL PRESENTATION:
Pricing an offering is both an art and a science. Pricing methods and
experiences differ according to the type of technology in question,
its target market and many other factors. Our panel will offer
different perspectives on the challenges and pitfalls of creating and
maintaining a market driven, profit optimal pricing strategy.
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Wednesday November 22nd 2006
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LESSONS IN PRODUCT / SERVICE PLANNING BEST PRACTICES
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Wayne Collier, EMEA Business Development, Accept Software
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here |
This presentation looks at the
challenges of gathering requirements, managing them, and prioritising
them for release planning. We will look at advice from PRTM, a global
leader in product development best practices, and what they believe is
the best way to product planning success:
Then we will show you how Pearson School
Systems, subsidiary of international media company Pearson plc, took
their advice on board and solved their issues.
Pearson School Systems found their
solution in Accept 360° from Accept Software – a browser-based
solution for requirements management and product planning that
improved process, reduced costs, and enhanced revenue.
Join Wayne Collier of Accept Software UK
to learn more about product planning best practices and how Accept
solved these problems for Pearson School Systems.
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Thursday 7th June 2006
6:30 PM Welcome and networking
7:00 PM Presentation
7:45 PM Questions
8:00 PM Close
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Best Practices in Product Management
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Peter Ganza, Product Manager, Professional
Services, Ryma Technology Solutions
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PRESENTATION:
This
session will investigate the three most common pieces of, and
problems within any Product Management process from a Best Practices
perspective (Process, Data & Collaboration). We will learn about
Ryma's experiences with PM organizations from all walks of life, as
well as solutions seen in the industry to solve our Process, Data
& Collaboration issues. It will also include a brief
demonstration of Ryma's Flagship Product Management tool,
Featureplan.
About
the Speaker:
Peter
Ganza is head of the Professional Services Group at Ryma Technology
Solutions. He has more than 10 years of experience in the technology
industry. Before joining Ryma, he had a distinguished career helping
consumers to large enterprises ensure the security and availability
of their information with a variety of Strategic, Product Management
and Technical roles at Symantec Corporation. There, he was a
founding member of Symantec's Competitive Product Management Team,
and made contributions to the organization worldwide for over 6
years. Peter is a trained Pragmatic Marketing Product Manager.
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Tuesday 28th March 2006
6:30 PM Welcome and networking
7:00 PM Presentation
7:45 PM Questions
8:15 PM Close
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Centralised Product Marketing Execution: Doing More With Less
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Lydia Pilkington - Senior Director, Technology Marking EMEA Region,
Oracle Corporation
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Oracle Corporation's current acquisition strategy has left their
product marketing function with an interesting dilemma: how to
market more products and support aggressive sales growth targets,
without dramatically increasing marketing headcount or budgets.
The
Oracle EMEA marketing organization is looking for ways to review
planning and execution cycles to:
-Do more with less
-Deliver a globally consistent message
-Effectively track results of marketing activities
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Thursday 5th January 2006
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Case Studies in
Product Management and Product Marketing
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John Billman,
Product Director Micro Focus
Laurent Seraphim, EMEA Products Director, Borland
Charlie Wade, Director Product Marketing, Nortel Networks
Seth Nesbitt, Director Regional Marketing, Amdocs
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Wednesday
16th November 2005
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Managing the
Regional/Global Product Split
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Yann Motte, VP Product Management, Yahoo Europe
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Managing the
Regional/Global Product Split
Slides
One
of the toughest challenges Product Managers and Product Marketers have
is managing Regional versus Global product issues. Whether you have to
localize versions of a global product or sell separate product lines
in distinct regions, issues of language, culture and business
environment produce a unique set of challenges. These issues are
typically magnified when product and management teams are spread
across multiple time zones. This presentation will look at some of the
challenges companies face when dealing with the Local/Regional/Global
Product Split as well as strategies and tactics for coping. The talk
will be followed by an open discussion where attendees are encouraged
to share their experiences.
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Thursday 15th September 2005
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Requirements
& Positioning: Are They Really The Same?
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John
Mansour of ZIGZAG Marketing
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Requirements & Positioning: Are They Really The Same?
The objective in writing business requirements is to define business problems your products need to solve. The objective of product positioning is to articulate business problems your products can solve. Many technology companies struggle with both. The simple reality is if you correctly define the problems to be solved during the requirements phase your product positioning for that release is essentially done. Join the UKPMF and John Mansour of ZIGZAG Marketing to hear about a simple two-for-one technique.
FEATURED SPEAKER:
John Mansour is the founder and CEO of ZIGZAG Marketing. In 2001 John formed ZIGZAG Marketing around a self developed methodology for planning, developing, and marketing high-tech products with a single goal in mind - to simplify the steps that occur between a good idea and a revenue generating product.
In the 15 years prior to ZIGZAG Marketing, John functioned in roles ranging from pre-sales, product marketing, product management, director, and vice president with blue-chip companies including MSA and Dun & Bradstreet, mid-market companies including Geac and Symix Systems, and start-ups with really bad names. John's product experience includes everything from managing a portfolio of legacy products to planning and launching a multitude of new products.
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Wednesday
29th June 2005
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New Product Introduction Process
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Andy Seager, Director
Avant Marketing LTD
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Andy Seager is a marketing professional with over 10 years
experience in product marketing for the technology sector. With a
proven track record in execution and management, Andy has been an
agent of change for large companies like Lucent Technologies, and
has worked with a number of start-up organisations both as a
consultant and as a contributor within management teams. Highlights
include the establishment of a European Product Realisation team for
Lucent's service provider messaging LOB and the integration of a
worldwide New Product Introduction process.
Andy now works as an independent consultant helping both start-up
and mature companies to establish a foothold in their mass-market
strategies - working alongside investors and management teams, Andy
has established value propositions for Mobile Applications, Unified
Messaging, Finance & Management, Health Care, Document
Management and Contact Centres.
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Wednesday
4th May 2005
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Product
Management and Process presentation and Panel discussion
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Robin Lowry, VP of Product Management, Ryma Technology Solutions Inc.
Elizabeth Caley, Senior Director, Product Management & Design, Hummingbird Ltd.
Lee Garrison, VP of Marketing, Xenos Group
Hugh Richards, Vice President, Products for Quadrus Financial
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slide show
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a PDF version of the slides.
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Wednesday
30th March 2005
6:30
PM – Welcome and networking
7:00
PM – Presentation
7:45
PM – Question and answer
8:00
PM – Close
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How
to get Phenomenal Product Reviews
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Brian
Lawley
President, 280 Group LLC
www.280group.com
More
information
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Date:
CONFIRMED
This
will be a remote
presentation via telephone
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the presentation click
here - PDF format.
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Thursday
6th Jan 2005
6:30
PM – Welcome and networking
7:00
PM – Presentation
7:45
PM – Question and answer
8:00
PM – Close
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The
Business value behind strategic management
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Tim
Cheadle
The Strategy Boutique
Limited
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Details
- Click here
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the presentation - Click here
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Wednesday
November 24th, 2004
Time:
6:30 PM
Networking, talk 7:00 – 8:00 PM
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Building
a Winning Product Team
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Steve
Johnson
Vice President, Pragmatic Marketing®
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Presentation: How to structure the Product Marketing function is a recurring question for nearly every high tech company. Who performs the tasks of gathering product requirements, analyzing competitors and creating product positioning; Product Managers – Product Marketing Managers – both? Similarly, where the Product team sits in the organization, Marketing, Engineering etc., can make a big difference in the way products are developed and the market orientation of the company. Through the use of real world examples and extensive survey data, Steve Johnson of Pragmatic Marketing®,the high tech industry's leading product marketing training and consulting firm, will look at how different organizations structure their Product Marketing organizations.
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here
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Sept
16th 2004
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Are
your Products Sales ready?
Making
the most of your channel to Market
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Robert
Blair
Principle Consultant, Solutions for Sales
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Presentation: Managing the relationship with Sales is one of the most important - and most challenging for Product Marketing organizations. This presentation will highlight what tools, materials and training Sales and Sales Engineering teams need from Product Managers and Product Marketing Managers to be effective. The presentation will also highlight the real world experience of leading hi-tech companies such as ACI, Cramer Systems, HP, LogicaCMG and Openwave and how they have benefited from the close collaboration of Product Marketing and Sales teams.
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Thursday
July 1st 2004
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Working
with Industry Analysts:
Seizing
opportunity with a key industry influencer
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Joyce Boland
Director Analyst Relations, Oracle Corporation
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