St. Louis Product Management Group

The St. Louis Product Management Group is pleased to announce this special event…

Pragmatic Marketing is coming to St. Louis May 19-21 to present the well known Practical Product Management and Requirements That Work seminars. Designed for IT professionals, product managers and other members of the product team, these seminars define the role of technology product management, providing tools, processes and real-world techniques to get products to market more efficiently. You can register online or get more information below.

In addition, the instructor, Stacey Weber, will be giving the keynote presentation on May 19 at a special meeting of the St. Louis Product Management Association.

Seminar descriptions and recommended attendees for each session:

• Practical Product Management (PPM), 2-day: Delivers a market-driven model that provides the tools for managing and marketing technology products that the market will embrace. PPM includes the Pragmatic Marketing Framework, a model for finding and solving pervasive market problems profitably. Ideal for Product Managers, Product Marketing Managers, Technical Product Managers, Architects, Marketing Communications, Development Leads, Sales Operations, and anyone associated with product direction.
• Requirements that Work (RTW), 1-day: Focuses on how Product Management communicates requirements to Development. The approach uses personas and Use Case Scenarios to describe what needs the product satisfies and whom it will benefit. In addition, requirements are prioritized, based on market need and impact. The goal is to create product plans that developers will embrace for solutions the market will buy. This approach produces clearer requirements and leads to quicker time-to-market and better solutions. It can decrease ramp up time for new staff, by using a consistent methodology for to document requirements. Ideal for Product Managers, Technical Product Managers, Architects, Development Leads, and anyone associated with product definition and direction.

You can also sign up to be notified of upcoming Pragmatic Marketing Events in the area

The first official meeting of the St. Louis Product Management Group was Wednesday, February 13, 2008 at SAVVIS. We had a great group of about product managers and some excellent discussion about what we each want to get out of — and contribute to — the group. Notes from the meeting are available (PowerPoint). Attendees included:

• PJ Farmer, SAVVIS
• Suvit Nopachai, Enterprise Rent-A-Car
• Mark Dickinson, SAVVIS
• James Fisher, CitiMortgage
• Stephen Thomson, Enterprise Rent-A-Car
• Ceci Bartels, Naked Branding
• Scott Rismiller, Monsanto
• Jennifer Ruffino, Monsanto
• Hugues Belanger, Enterprise Rent-A-Car
• Vivek Talyan, Enterprise Rent-A-Car
• Jeff Lash, Elsevier

The St. Louis Product Management Group meets the last Tuesday of the month at 5pm at SAVVIS.

The April meeting was held on April 29, 2008. James Fisher presented on Components of a Product Vision/Strategy. Slides from the meeting are available (PowerPoint).

Here’s the details:

• 5:00pm: Arrivals, snacks, informal networking
• 5:30pm: Meeting begins
• 7:00pm-ish: Meeting adjourns

• Location: SAVVIS; 1 SAVVIS Parkway, Chesterfield, MO, 63017. (Google map of SAVVIS)
• The parking lot is located on the South side of the building. If doors are locked (they shouldn’t be), please buzz to security and let them know you are here for the St. Louis Product Manager’s Association Meeting. Sign in as a visitor to the front desk for this meeting and reception will point you in the direction of the meeting room, which will be close to reception.
• Thanks to SAVVIS for providing the facilities for this meeting!

The St. Louis Product Management Group meets the last Tuesday of the month at 5pm at SAVVIS.

The March meeting was held on March 25, 2008. Due to illness, our scheduled presenter had to be postponed. Jeff Lash filled in with his presentation: Ten Tips For New Product Managers. This presentation was also given as a webinar for The Product Management View, and you can also download the slides: 2MB PPT.

Thanks to SAVVIS for providing the facilities for this meeting!