Product Management
What if you could benefit from the expertise of other product managers and discover both new and proven methods to handle your challenges?
You might just end up succeeding with your projects faster and avoid repeating the mistakes that other product managers have already made. Ultimately better products!
The product management peer groups meet 4 times a year in North America and Europe.
Meetings are held in English, and a group leader provides meeting minutes from each meeting as well as an online forum for members to continue the conversations in between the meetings. There are expert guest speakers at most meetings to provide further input to the group. Guest speakers could be relevant customer cases, analysts or industry standard organisations.
Each meeting will result in a public document as a statement from the group intended to stir public discussion and further advance the field.
Upcoming meetings
26 August in Hamburg
5 September at Adobe in Basel
26 September in Berlin
7 November in Aarhus (co-located with Boye Aarhus 24 conference)
Current members
Among the members in our product management community are ABB, Bühler, Core dna, CoreMedia, Crownpeak, Elastic, GatherContent, Ibexa, LexisNexis, Magnolia and Netgen.
Group photo at the NYC product peer group in September 2019 when Capital One hosted us in their Flatiron campus
Topics covered
Product management topics are the main themes for the group and here are some of the topics we’ve covered:
Artificial intelligence: How to capitalise on the huge potential
Beta programs / how to manage customers expectations when iterating quickly, meaning when you add things and potentially remove them shortly after
Continuous innovation in established software development company
Evaluating Product Managers – what performance indicators (if any) are the best?
Making cross-team collaboration happen
Aiming for narrower focus but keeping a team productive, the myth/grail of parallelization to avoid idle time.
How to make engineering teams breathe the top company priority
Dealing with “big bets”: time consuming feature that could make your company grow or fail rapidly
Sense of urgency – how to get the development team to breath the product?
Facilitators
Every group meeting is facilitated by a host with substantial knowledge and experience working with product management at top positions; addressing product management from multiple points of entry; covering strategy, UX, marketing as well as content throughout their career.
Janus Boye has worked within product management and has been moderating groups on this and other topics since 2003.
Member profile
This is a confidential forum where experienced product managers can meet, set the agenda for future industry developments, provide feedback and share thoughts and ideas in an inspiring setting.
If you have several years of experience, a broad range of knowledge and your working day is dedicated to product management then you have the ideal profile. Each group is limited to 20 members.
New members will need to be approved by existing members to ensure the right composition.
Price
1 year membership at EUR 2350