Global Product Management Talk

Vince Baskerville, Product Manager, Core Community at Lithium and Co-Founder at TripLingo Discusses The Unique Challenges Of Being A One Person UX Team Vince says, "I'm passionate about crafting highly intuitive and engaging digital products and excited to talk with other professionals about the challenges faced by User Experience professionals in startups and small teams on the Global Product Management Talk broadcast and at the February 7 Startup Product Summit in San Francisco." Resources: http://bit.ly/11Xx5yY

Chad McAllister, Ph.D., NPDP, PMP, Founder, Product Innovation Educators, Discusses The Specifics Of Managing An Innovation Process Chad says, "I'm looking forward to talking about how to become a Product Innovation Leader with the Global Product Management Talk community. My goal is to provide the education for professionals to infuse their business culture with the ability to effectively implement innovation across all functions." Resources: http://bit.ly/TA81cx

Joe Stump, CEO And Cofounder Of Sprint.ly, Discusses Iterative Product Development Process, Automating Product Releases And Metrics Joe says, "Figuring out ways to ship more product is a passion of mine. The problem spans technology, product, design, and people, which is what makes it so interesting. I'm excited to talk more about the colliding worlds of iterative development and product management with the community on Global Product Management Talk." Background: http://bit.ly/128fhQp

Sean Campbell, Principal, Cascade Insights Discusses Competitive Intelligence Frameworks and the Power Of Pattern Recognition For Deciphering Changing Market Forces And Customer Needs  @sean_campbell Sean says, "Regularly, Scott Swigart and I discuss pertinent issues on the CI Life podcast. The Global Product Management Talk combined with the socratic twitter chat is a novel format for talking about frameworks with the product professional community." Background Resources: http://bit.ly/W7roGu

Properly positioning a company and its products is a critical factor for success. When a solution just can not seem to get traction in the market, often the problem is not the product; it is how it is positioned. Jerry Rackley joined Demand Metric in October 2011 as Vice President of Marketing & Product Development. He began his 28-year marketing career at IBM, and his work record includes experience in the technology and financial services sectors. During his career, he has worked with companies ranging in size from startups to members of the global 1000, performing marketing, marketing communication, public relations and product management work. A graduate of Oklahoma State University, he is an adjunct Marketing faculty member in the Spears School of Business. Host @CindyFSolomon talks with Jerry Rackley @DemandMetric Background resources: http://bit.ly/SieNC5

Johanna Rothman, High Tech Product Development Management Expert And Author, Discusses Effective Project Portfolio Management Techniques Johanna shares, "Product management provides the product strategy. Senior management provides the corporate strategy. Project portfolio management is where the corporate strategy meets the product strategy. I'm so excited about the chance to chat with the Global Product Management community and explain project portfolio management, and hear their concerns and issues. I am sure this is the beginning of many "aha" moments inside organizations." Host, @CindyFSolomon is joined by co-host @EstherDerby Background Resources: http://bit.ly/UPMb1l

Dick is the CEO and Chief Innovation Officer of Value Innovations, Inc. (Vi), HQ'd in Colorado. Dick will discuss The Value Innovation Process: Delivering Exceptional Value to your most important internal and external customers. http://www.valueinnovations.com Dick says, "I'm honored to talk about effective methods of achieving innovation with Global Product Management Talk audience. Innovation and product management are keys to growing the US economy...businesses must grow and when they do, we will create jobs!" Background Resources: http://bit.ly/XRr7O4

Steve Johnson, CMO, Primary Intelligence, Leads Google Hangouts Discussion On Titles, Responsibilities And Tools Of Product Managers with Cindy F. Solomon and Pete Dudchenko, Matt Perez, Alan Pinstein, Greg Gehrich, Nick Coster, Adrienne Tan, and Richard Nutinsky Background Resources: http://bit.ly/wbRq48

Ron Lichty & Mickey Mantle, Co-Authors of Managing The Unmanageable: Rules, Tools, And Insights for Managing Software People and Teams Ron Lichty says, "The essence of the relationship between product managers and software development managers should be collaboration: pairing as product leaders. I've seen too many strained relationships. But I've also seen and experience the sparks of synergy that result from close collaboration - working relationships that have enhanced the product, professional and personal lives of everyone in the product organization and through the company." Resources: http://bit.ly/Q5HZ1x    

Bill Reed, Managing Director & Co-Founder, Aventi Group @Aventigroup,  tech and product marketing expert talks with host, Cindy F. Solomon about  winning strategies and directives to sink the competition Background Resources: http://bit.ly/QssD3J  

Teresa Torres, Vice President of Products at AfterCollege, Identifies Best Practices To Ensure That User Stories Communicate The "Why" Behind The Requirement Teresa says, "I'm looking forward to discussing the impact of user stories with the Global Product Management Talk community. The broadcast is a great opportunity to raise visibility of product managers and the function of product management to guarantee that more big ideas turn into great products." Host, @CindyFSolomon joined by co-host, Roger Cauvin @RCauvin Resources: http://bit.ly/OEcevS

Glen Lipka, Vice President of User Experience, Marketo, Discusses How Product Management, User Experience (UX) And Engineering Teams Can Work Together To Achieve A Great Product Outcome Glen says, “My view of an ideal structure for the product team is flat so that everyone is working as peers together to collaborate with specific responsibilities. I look forward to sharing my experience as first employee at Marketo with the #ProdMgmtTalk community." Host, @CindyFSolomon joined by co-host, @TaariqLewis Background Resources: http://bit.ly/PC6srt

Marisa Kopec, SiriusDecisions’ Product Marketing and Management (PMM), Discusses Best-In-Class Practices For Incorporating B-to-B Personas Into Customer Centric Product Strategy Marisa says, "I'm looking forward to discussing personas with the Global Product Management Talk community. Product managers are responsible for identifying various customers/buyers and users' perspectives and isolating appropriate personas to forward product requirements and marketing strategy." Host, Cindy F. Solomon @cindyfsolomon is joined by co-host, Therese Padilla @theresepadilla Resources: http://bit.ly/RTo3ON

Prabhakar says, "The Global Product Management Talk has become the de facto weekly "go-to" digital event to hear thought leaders discussing new ideas and concepts about the emerging profession of product management. It makes perfect sense to discuss a theory of perception in the context of product strategy." Host, Cindy F. Solomon is joined by Lydia Sugarman as co-host Our speaker, Prabhakar Gopalan, is Austin's expert on strategy, an entrepreneur and a product guy. Prabhakar is the founder of Simple Idea Labs, and kanban2go.com is one of their first experiments. Prabhakar writes and talks about products, strategy and chaos. Opinions expressed here do not reflect those of his employers. Resources: http://bit.ly/PlW9ua              

David Fradin says, "The Global Product Management Talk is a great vehicle for discussing the product management foundations (process, people and information) a company must provide, to build great products and services.  Looking forward to joining in the conversation to share my view!" Background Resources:  http://bit.ly/NX1e7Y  

Host, Cindy F. Solomon and co-host, Adrienne Tan reminisce about the year of Global Product Management Talk podcasts, discuss trends and changes in professional product management, and talk with Bill Reed a bit about his upcoming full hour discussion on Advances in Product Marketing. Host, @CindyFSolomon, San Francisco, CA joined by @brainmates co-host from Australia Background resources: http://bit.ly/MYIJOz Thanks to this week's sponsor: The Association of International Product Marketing and Management http://www.aipmm.com  

Nicholas Muldoon, Agile Evangelist At Atlassian, Discusses Product Management For Agile Software Development Teams Live From Agile 2012 In Dallas, Texas @NJM Nick says, "Looking forward to learning of the challenges the global product management community faces in regards to adopting Agile and responding to customers. Going to be great to be answering these questions from Agile 2012, the largest Agile conference in the world!" Host @CindyFSolomon joined by co-host Adrienne Tan @brainmates  Background Resources: http://bit.ly/MiPdrp

@JohnNewbury, B2B Marketing Professional, Leads Discussion On The End Of The Product Life Cycle: How To Deal With Product Obsolescence In The Retire Stage John says, "I'm really delighted to be joining the Global Product Management Talk to lead this discussion, having co-hosted several times. ProdMgmtTalk is such a unique forum for Product Managers, with high-quality insight from a truly global audience. Talking about how to manage a product's end of life stage should enhance everyone's product chops." Host @CindyFSolomon is joined by co-host @GregGehrich Background resources: http://bit.ly/SXHiVd

Hector Del Castillo, PMP, CPM, CPMM says, "I'm looking forward to this important discussion with the Global Product Management Talk since I speak with professionals seeking to advance their product management careers on a daily basis. I'm delighted to join other participants in the ProdMgmtTalk community who already serve as mentors, perhaps in an informal way, by generously sharing their expertise and contributing to the visibility of the product manager's role in successfully guiding products throughout the entire product lifecycle process." Host @CindyFSolomon is joined by co-host Teresa Torres @ttorres Resources: http://bit.ly/NRSmA6

Innovation: The Result of the Intersection of Invention and Value w/ Jose Briones, PhD @brioneja Jose says, "The Global Product Management Talk is an innovative attempt to enable real time participation simultaneously on open platforms using Twitter, Skype and BlogTalkRadio. I look forward to discussing how companies define innovation and what systems are currently in place to support and manage development of innovation throughout the entire process during #ProdMgmtTalk." Co-host @Therese Padilla, President @AIPMM joins @CindyFSolomon for this discussion Background Resources: http://bit.ly/MAlud5