An Agile Product Open meetup recap By Lisa Sieverts – The BPMA sponsors many different groups that provide practical educational and workshop type events. These events empower our membership with the knowledge and skills necessary to improve their current work or further advance their careers in product management. Product management is one of those disciplines…
By John Zilch – Upon embarking on my first stint as a product manager, I happened to run into an experienced product executive one day in passing. I asked him for advice and he obliged. He replied rather succinctly: “Ask questions, and then go add value.” He was never one to ramble on. Since then,…
by Emera Trujillo Design sprints are all the rage these days and with good reason. As a flexible design framework, the design sprint can yield creative solutions that stakeholders & customers want. Recently, Boston Women in Product organized a design sprint workshop run by the amazing team at Fresh Tilled Soil and hosted by ZipCar. Evan…
Contributed by Greg Geracie In a recent post for the Boston Product Management Association I outlined several steps that members of product development teams can take to improve the performance of their teams. These steps are a result of our ongoing research into what distinguishes high performance teams from the pack. Over the last five…
Interviewed by Oksana Reznichenko Dinneen Grably graduated from Bridgewater State University with B.S. in Business Marketing and started her career as a press attaché and assistant director in communication for the Massachusetts Secretary of State at State House in Boston. She has a unique combination of business expertise and coaching proficiency, allowing her to relate…
Contributed by Greg Geracie Actuation Consulting has been conducting research on what separates high performance product teams from the pack. Over the last five years our surveys, coupled with regression analysis by an independent statistician, have helped us to identify over 25 statistically significant contributors to success on product teams. To learn about our latest…
Contributed by Saikrishna Chavali Kicking off the 2017 BPMA calendar is Alyssa Dver on using Neuroscience to build confidence. While talking to her we realized her deep roots in Product Management in the Greater Boston area all way into Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the late 80s. Product Management was still figuring out if it’s a…
