Schedule of Sessions for 2022 Spring Product Camp
Session Hour #1
Hard Lessons Learned in Product
Alex Sherman | Presentation
I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my career and I’m sure you have too. Don’t you wish you had learned those lessons much earlier? I’d love to share some of these hard lessons learned and some tactics that I use as a model to help me in my day-to-day role.
Session #10 | Room #3
From Customer Discovery to Truth Discovery: How to Discover If Customers Will Buy and Use Your Product (Before Building Your Product)
David Eckoff | Workshop
The mortality rate for new businesses and products is stunning. All begin with high expectations but most fail. In this session you’ll learn a practical set of actions you can follow right now to dramatically improve your odds.
► Learn how to reduce new product risk – and the most important risk to focus on first
â–º Discover a powerful approach to testing your ideas that will get you moving incredibly fast
â–º Get ahead of the curve by knowing the 3 biggest tactical mistakes smart people make in customer discovery
â–º Learn simple but non-obvious hacks you’ll love.
Session #23 | Room #1
Quantifying Strategic Alignment with the 60 Second Business Case
Jason Brett| Presentation
It is possible to quantify strategic alignment and create powerful collaboration with your leadership and team! The 60 Second Business Case provides a framework for communicating exactly why we prioritize the way we do.
Session #26 Room #4
Acing Product Management Interviews
Katie Salley | Presentation
Want to hit your next PM interview out of the park? Interested in becoming a PM from another background? Learn how to conquer the PM interview and land your next PM job!
Session # 5 Room #2
Interview like a Pro for Market Discovery, Win-Loss, and More
Charles Topping | Workshop
Learn what it takes to interview like a pro, on the phone or in-person. We’ll walk through the key steps of preparing for interview-based research, then we’ll practice interviewing to get you over the jitters of performing your first interview.
Session #15 Room #11
Winning Over Your Development Teams
Erika Baker | Town Hall or Ad Hoc Panel
The relationship you have as a product person with your development team is missional critical to your success. In this session, we will discuss practical ways I and others have built great relationships with our development teams to be able to create the best products possible.
Session #12 Room#3
Key to having a successful migration
Joel Plofsky | Presentation
A huge percentage of products built to replace an existing product fail miserably for one very basic reason. This session will help you understand how to succeed where so many others have failed.
Session #17 Room #2
How do I break into Product Management
Beth White | Panel
Graduating from school? Looking at making a career change? What are the current industry trends? First, you made the right decision to come and network with fellow Product Managers. Here is your opportunity to hear from a Recruiter, a Sr. Product Manager, Product Coach and a Product Leader with their experiences in breaking into product management.
Session #11 | Room #4
30 second pitch
Amy Sharma | Presentation
You all need help pitching your sessions and I am here to help
Session #33 | Room#1
The Product Engagement Lifecycle: Frameworks for Analyzing and Improving Engagement
Kent Keirsey | Presentation + Workshop
With a fine-tuned framework that breaks down the lifecycle of effective product growth, we’ll cover how leading products guide users to value, and then use these frameworks to build out and map your own product’s lifecycle.
Session #8 | Room #4
User interviews: you could do them better
Sam Duong Woloszynski | Workshop
Do you understand your users? This hands-on workshop will teach you tactical skills for designing, conducting, and synthesizing user interviews.
Session #16/22 Room #3
Product Management Tools You’ll Actually Use
Steve Johnson | Workshop
As a product manager, you should be able to define a vision, share a plan, tell a story, and prioritize a backlog. Get 4 ready-to-use templates in this session.
Session #3 Room #2
Powerpoint Karaoke
Jason Brett | Workshop
The most fun you can have at ProductCamp! How many times have you been handed a presentation that someone else created and told “I need you to deliver this talk tomorrow?”
If it hasn’t happened yet, it will! Come to Powerpoint Karaoke and show off your skills, cheer on your colleagues and learn a few tricks for handling the scenario that some consider a nightmare and others have found to be a career-making thrill!
Session #24 | Room #2
Share your calendar; an exercise in transparency, radical honesty, and peer support
Jerry SeufertWorkshop
Attendees will be assigned in groups of 4. Each group will share a real ‘week in their life’ calendar, look for themes and lessons, and offer ideas to peers re: how to use their weeks better.
Session #1 4 | Room #4
Logic or Numbers: Managing Controversial Roadmap Choices
Johanna Vander VenWorkshop
What would you choose, Hellcats or Teslas? This session is an interactive case study, where the roadmap choice between adding Hellcats or Teslas needs to be made and defended. Consider the facets of such choices, discuss with colleagues, and share what you come up with!
Session #28 Room #121
Seamlessly Introducing New Product Experiences For Your Clients
Ryan Garringer | Presentation
Looking to retire a classic product experience while introducing a new product experience for your clients? In this session, we will review techniques to help your clients seamlessly transition to your new product experience with minimal impacts.
Session #21 Room #3
