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Public Workshops
Most of our workshops are custom-tailored for a company, and are hosted onsite. But several times a year we make these workshops publically available so that people can sign up individually.
- Essential Lessons in Interaction Design
- Fall 2012 - Silicon Valley
Many people can identify a terrific user interface design when they see it. We are all customer and users, and we interact with products all the time, so it is easy to think therefore that anyone can also create a good design. But designing a product from a “blank sheet of paper” or trying to address a problematic design is a serious challenge, and requires very specific skills and techniques. A great user interface appears effortless, almost invisible, and allows the product functionality to shine through. The Essential Lessons in User Experience Design Workshop helps UI designers looking for a more structured approach and for ways to improve their skills. It is also perfect for product managers, visual designers, usability researchers, or lead engineers in smaller organizations who are filling the role of UI designer, or who want to move their career in that direction.
read more- How To Create Products Customers Love
- May 22-23 in Shanghai and May 25-26 in Beijing
I am once again bringing my workshop to China.
read more- How To Rethink Product Marketing
- May 23, 2012 - Silicon Valley
Great marketing shifts conversations when it is genuinely engaging. Too often product marketing gets stuck in cycles of bad tactics, meaningless messaging, and poor strategy that can result in a great product dying because it lacks good marketing. This workshop teaches three simple frameworks to make product marketing strategic, uncluttered and successful.
read more- Special Product Owner Public Workshop
- June 27-29, 2012 - Santa Clara, CA
For several years I have held occasional public workshops where I share best practices in Product, but I have always explained to the attendees that my session is not a substitute for getting trained on Agile / Scrum. I typically go on to recommend that people be sure to get trained by one of the very few Agile trainers that truly understand consumer internet product companies (rather than the much more prevalent custom and IT software environments).
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My favorite such trainer is Jeff Patton. While Jeff is one of the original Agile pioneers, he has established a very successful and specialized practice where he focuses on product managers and product designers that care not only about how to use Agile to build products faster, but to actually build better products faster.
I've been friends with Jeff for several years, and have introduced him in to many of the companies I work with. Recently, we've decided to do an experiment together. This summer, we'll be holding a special, combined, 3-day public workshop (one in Silicon Valley and one in Europe).
This workshop is specifically designed for Product Managers, Product Designers and Product Architects from Consumer Internet Product companies that want to dive very deep into the Product Owner role and learn the leading edge practices from Lean Startups, Lean UX, Agile, Customer Development, Product Discovery, Design Thinking and Story Mapping, as well as techniques and practices from the very best consumer internet product companies in the world.
The workshop includes the CSPO Product Owner Certification, but the content goes well beyond Agile to encompass the end to end product process from portfolio management to customer discovery to product discovery to product delivery.
It will be an intense three days, but our intention is to provide the single best learning opportunity in the world for aspiring product leaders.
To register, go to: http://svpg-po.eventbrite.com