Know anyone who seems to work less than 40 hours but gets a lot, and I mean a WHOLE lot more done than those…ahem…who work longer hours but still have a whole weeks of to-dos left over come Friday? How do they do it? Join us for another lively product workshop…
When: Tuesday October 25th
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Where: Boy’s Scout National Office
1325 W. Walnut Hill Lane
Irving TX 75038
RSVP….its free to attend.
Thank you to all who participated in the Tools, tips and cool ideas workshop, it was another great meeting! A special thanks to the presenters for facilitating very informational and interactive discussions. If you did not make it, see what you missed…
Tips & Tools for Internal Communication – Myra Brown
High quality product and service delivery is a responsibility of all areas of the company. When a new product is undergoing development or launch or when an existing product is being enhanced, packaged, rebranded, or repositioned, these efforts will likely impact all departments within the company. Learn some tools, tips, and hints for improving your ability to champion your ideas, get engagement and involvement from cross-functional teams, and build support for your product efforts companywide. Document Link.
Voice of the Customer – Jose Briones
What does voice of the customer really mean? Well, it depends…
Kanban (development) – Brian Anderson
Kanban is a method for developing products with an emphasis on just-in-time delivery while not overloading the developers. It emphasizes that developers pull work from a queue, and the process, from definition of a task to its delivery to the customer, is displayed for participants to see. Document Link.
I hope you found this article helpful. See you at the October meet! Watch this site for more details and dont forget to join our mailing list for future updates.
Join us as we share personal insights, ideas and tools that make our lives are producteers easier.
Are you working on 2012 Roadmaps? Ramping up marketing to meet 2011 goals? Running beta tests? Implementing surveys? Analyzing consumer insights? About to launch a new product? You should join us…our monthly meetings are open to all, free and the best part is we love to talk shop!
When: Tuesday September 27th
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Where: Boy’s Scout National Office
1325 W. Walnut Hill Lane
Irving TX 75038
A big thank you to the Boy’s Scout organization for letting us use their conference rooms to host our meetings free of charge.
Join us for for more Product Talk and Networking!
Featuring a first – Product Smack-Down! We have a few brave project managers who will be presenting their products for an all out smackdown. Share with them your thoughts on their product. Come on out and help your fellow peers make their product market ready!
When: Tuesday July 26th, 2011
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
The Ranch at Las Colinas
857 W. John Carpenter Freeway.
On the corner of 114 and MacArthur.
Irving, TX 75039
(972) 506 -7262
Once again, we would like to thank all who attended the 1st ProductCamp DFW. These are some of the kudos we received about the event 
“expert knowledge from the audience was very high and impressive”
“i have attended 9 product camps and this was the most interactive one of all”
“i enjoyed the interactivity in the sessions”
“networking opportunities were great with plenty of time to talk with other campers between sessions”
“there was adequate caffeine and snacks to keep energy levels up”
We would love to hear more! If you attended, we want to hear from you! If you did not attend, we need to hear from you as well! Just complete the survey below…
Survey Link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VN6F2DN
Don’t forget to check back soon on information about future events. The next event is scheduled for July 26th @ 6pm.
Thanks and Cheers!
ProductCamp is an un-conference, meaning that it is FREE to you! Your only cost is your participation – bring your ideas, lead a session in your area of expertise, facilitate a roundtable discussion, network, or volunteer.
Twitter: ProductCampDFW
Are you are interested in leading a Session at Product Camp DFW 2011? If you are interested please let us know. Here are a few sessions that have been presented at other PCamps:-
• Value of Product Marketing
• Value in Use Analysis for Product Pricing and Marketing
• Sizing, Segmenting, and Forecasting Markets
• Product Management – Start With the Story
• PowerPoint Karaoke
• How to make SEO work for you
• My PowerPoint sucks…now what?
Product Camp is about lively and collaborative discussions, not lectures! We share, we listen, we learn and most of all we encourage collaboration!
Submit your session ideas to info@dfwproductgroup.org.
Thank you all for attending the February Social mixer and big thanks to the ladies at Black Finn for being such excellent hostesses. We had some veterans as well as a good number of new attendees!
Next meet-up will be on April 5th to avoid conflict with Spring Break and March madness, so please mark your calendars and look out for additional details.
We are also looking for guest bloggers who would like to share great PM articles, thoughts, ideas….etc. Contact Joyce Schofield @ info@dfwproductgroup.org if you are interested.
I know, I know…we usually hold our events on the 4th Tuesday…but we decided to do something crazy in February and change it to the 4th Thursday! Maybe its super-bowl fever, or pre-valentines sparks…or maybe it just all the energy built up from budget exercises, project priortitization and trying to figure out what products to launch…crazy! So come on out and socialize with your fellow peers…
BlackFinn will be hosting us and offering our group a Finn-tastic Happy Hour special featuring complimentary food tasting and 1 free drink coupon for each DFW Product Group member!
When: Thursday February 24th, 2011
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm
BlackFinn American Saloon
4440 Belt Line
Addison, TX 75001
(469)374-7667
Happy new year to all of you! We are slowly getting back into the swing of things. We have an exciting year planned for the Dallas/Fort Worth Group in 2011! Here is a sneak peak…
- Networking Social Mixer sometime in February and others throughout 2011
- Our very first DFW Product Camp in May!
- Guest bloggers
- Feature articles featuring group members
Have you registered on our interest page and provided feedback on what session topics you would like featured at the product camp? If not, there is still time…register @ http://pcampdallas.eventbrite.com/
Be sure to look out for the February Social mixer and we wish all our group members a fantastic 2011!
