Proposed Session:
Session Title: How can we help product management become a recognized profession?
Description: The product management profession to date has not received the same level of recognition enjoyed by project management or other equally important occupations. Today each industry, company and even individual defines product management differently. There is no standard definition of the role – no standard job description. One person’s product manager is another’s program manager, product marketing manager or project manager. The profession does not benefit from any standard definitions of activities, deliverables or milestones. All product management training is unique to the individual trainer. The result is as many frameworks as there are trainers. The product management principles they teach vary drastically in content, scope and quality, despite its enormous potential impact on determining the success or failure of an entire enterprise. How can we turn this around like PMI did for project management?
Leader(s): Tom Chmielewski, Steve Wells
Tom is a scarred and seasoned veteran product manager with over 20 years experience in institutions that range from top Fortune 50 companies to start-ups. Tom and his teams have designed and delivered many new products which are used today in a wide range of market segments. Tom is equally passionate about, and committed to, making product management a recognized profession alongside other established professions such as doctors, accountants, and project managers Tom is a co-founder of the Atlanta Product Management Society (TAG) and is a certified Product Manager, Product Marketing Manager, ID Theft Risk Management Specialist and a member of all your favorite product management groups.
tchmielewski@comcast.net; 678-427-1909
Steve is a seasoned product management professional with over 30 years experience in high tech software and hardware products using leading edge technologies. Steve is passionate about, and committed to, making product management a recognized profession alongside other established professions such as doctors, lawyers and project managers. He holds BEE, MEE and MBA degrees, a Certificate in International Business, a PMP Certificate from the PMI, and a CPM from the AIPMM
Steve mobile 978-501-4221
