This month we ran a workshop instead of a talk. If you attended, we’d love to get feedback on this session. Would you like more of this? What worked well? What could have been better? Reach out to Jen & Liz on the ProdAnon slack. Designing the box+ The ‘Design the Box’ is a classic activity created by Gamestorming.com in 2011. The goal is simple – to create the design of a physical box that sells your product. The limited real-estate and creating a physical ‘thing’ forces participants to focus on who is the customer, what is important for them, and how do we influence the buying decision ..read more

RSVP for April 18th Discovery is incredibly important though there’s a lot of ways to do discovery – so what’s the right way to do this? Or do you really need to do discovery? Our speaker, Melissa Klemke, Head of Product at Prezzee, will take you though an interactive session and will be covering a lot including: Types of research Working with User Researchers (if you have them & what if you don’t) Setting up a research program and customer pool What market research is useful and how to do it Forming hypotheses Experimenting Tooling (with and w/o fancy tools) Solutioning & technical ..read more

Or maybe the question is – do you think about your value prop? How do you communicate your value prop? This month we’ll organise you into small groups to do a bit of a workshop. We’ll have an exercise that might mean you need to bring your own paper and scissors to help you think about your products value proposition. Jen + Liz + Steve B will be your fabulous fun hosts. NOTE: We have some stationary from Product Camp but if you have your own sharpie to bring, that would be helpful! Sharpie colours are good! RSVP for Thursday March 21st Our hosts – Chargefox! Chargefox is part of the AMS Gro ..read more

RSVP for Thursday, Feb 22nd Upgrade your product delivery with OKRs (Workshop) One of the best things we can do as Product people is get our teams excited about solving real customer problems and measuring success. We’re going to cover just that in this session, we’ll explore how to go from strategy and discovery, to validating the impact once launched with the Objective and Key Results (OKR) framework. A goal setting framework used by some of the world’s leading product businesses, like Google, LinkedIn and SEEK. This will be a practical session, so be ready to work on your product! Our Speak ..read more

Kate Lanyon came to speak to us about the relationship between product folk and engineers and some of the areas that can create friction between us. She’s got some great tips and insights as to how to reduce this friction and help create working relationships that kick ass! Kate’s been an engineer for a long time and draws on her experiences of being that individual contributor and performing some of these sins herself – through to being a CTO and co-founder where she’s also led engineers and had to coach them in some of these areas. Her most recent experience at a startup digs deep on this to ..read more

As software companies scale and the product team grows, the difference between building ‘stuff’ and performing the practice of product management can be massive. It can greatly impact the ability to find product market fit through to the ability to scale with pace and grace. Our speaker, Nick Wodzinski, has worked at several start-ups and shared his first hand experience of moving the team into the practice of product management while being resource constrained. Nick’s 3 tips are: Think about roles, not job titles Nick shared some previous conversations that helped to shape this guideline inc ..read more

What is the difference between a product team building a product and product teams ‘doing product’? As software companies scale and the product team grows, the difference between building ‘stuff’ and performing the practice of product management can be massive. It can greatly impact the ability to find product market fit through to the ability to scale with pace and grace. Join us Thursday October 26th RSVP Our speaker, Nick Wodzinski will share his experience of going from product hire #1 in startups & scale ups and working with teams building product to setting the formula for growing fr ..read more

As a product manager, have you gotten caught into the AI frenzy? Or feel like you’re missing out and not sure where to start? This month we’ll talk about how to make use of AI and tools like ChatGPT in your product world. RSVP for September 21st – How to use Generative Ai in your workflow, i.e. pad out a persona – How to incorporate it into an existing product i.e. Shopify launching Sidekick, a personal commerce assistant – What could you do to build from the ground up with chatGPT, as an example. i.e. this is the hardest to predict at the moment as well but we can explore some of the future o ..read more

Take your mind back to August 2019.. it was a bit chilly and we had 300 people interested in product all together for Product Camp. We celebrated 10 years of Product Camp in Melbourne, where Rich Mironov virtually spoke to us about the importance of community and history of Product Camps, Georgia Murch helped us understand feedback, Antony Ugoni shared his knowledge and experiences with bringing the data and about 20 of our community gave talks (after they pitched & the attendees voted on what they wanted to hear). AND then there was that thing – that prevented us from gathering together ..read more

You have decided you want to be a product manager and gotten that first job – or maybe you’re in your second PM role. Is it all you thought it would be?? What really have you gotten yourself into as a new product manager?!? And this session is not just for folks who are new to product management! Folks who have been there … we need your wise words of wisdom and you’ll learn something new too! This month, we’ve gathered a panel of new product folk (3 years or less) to share their stories of what their grappling with at the start of this career journey. We’ll be taking questions from the audienc ..read more