Mar-14-09: Second Annual P-Camp at Yahoo! Sunnyvale HQ
Enthiosys was thrilled to host and co-sponsor this year’s P-Camp. It had twice the attendees and sessions as our first event in 2008.
See the event wiki HERE.
When: Saturday, March 14th, 2009 from 9:00AM to 4:00PM+
Where: Yahoo! Building C, 701 First Ave, Sunnyvale
Cost: FREE! and included lunch plus an event t-shirt.
Building on the first P-Camp in March-08, this year’s event brought together hundreds of product managers for industry panels, informal discussion groups, presentations, panels, personal networking, innovation, creativity, fun and food. We talked, shared, played some Innovation Games, created a schedule wall of sessions, and designed our own product boxes.
Event Wiki
Sessions, schedules, presentations and notes are HERE. Please add your own notes, photos, links and ideas.
Note that you will need to create a free user name on the SocialText website in order to edit our wiki page. Thanks!
Other attendees and presenters are already loading up material.
Sponsors
Thanks to the following for helping make this a free event:
Events, Panels and Talks
See the full schedule of sessions and talks HERE, which included:
Tom Grant – “Agile Changes How Technology Companies Operate”
Nancy Frishberg and Meghan Ede – Innovation Games session.
Nancy Frishberg & Daniela Busse – Agile UX.
Erin Kinikin – “Working With Analysts” – panel
Chris Sims – “Agile 101”
Joy Montgomery – “Building the Base for Better Profits: Specifications, Standards and Procedures”
Rich Mironov – “How Agile Changes The Way You Do Product Management”
Ross Mayfield -”Using Social Media and Wikis in Product Management” – panel
Mara Krieps / Linda Merrick -”Agile Product Management: The Rosetta Stone”
Catherine Connor – “Agile Product Management and CRM”
David Taber – “Design your customer before you design your product”
Luke Hohmann – “Shaping Your Products With Prune The Product Tree”
Matt Klassen – “Enterprise Agile Transformation – A Case Study from a Borland PMs View”
Sudha Jamthe – “Socializing your iphone application – A Product Managers Dream”
John Mansour – “The Requirements Value Chain”
Lane Halley – “User Interface Design for PMs”
Greg Cohen – “Recession-Proofing your Career”
Social Networking Groups
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October 1st, 2008 at 01 Oct 2008
Topic proposal – reprise of last year’s successful: “Before my first (or most recent) product management effort, I wish I had known…”
October 2nd, 2008 at 02 Oct 2008
what kind of sponsorship opportunities are available? I’ll give some thought to panels
October 2nd, 2008 at 02 Oct 2008
Wish it didn’t have to occur on a Saturday. How about a weekday next time?
October 3rd, 2008 at 03 Oct 2008
Are we not on barcamp.org?
[Rich: good point, added. BTW, we’re managing attendees this year through Acteva to make sure everyone stays invited.]
October 21st, 2008 at 21 Oct 2008
Potential talk or panel: “explaining technical concepts in simple terms”. I could help find speakers in product management and other areas (e.g. talking to investors, visual representation of data, etc). What is the budget?
December 15th, 2008 at 15 Dec 2008
Great to see this becoming an annual event – last year’s was excellent! Alas, March 14th is the weekend of SxSW Interactive, so I won’t make the P-Camp this year.
December 16th, 2008 at 16 Dec 2008
[...] Silicon Valley 2009 P-Camp Silicon Valley 2009 will be March 14 at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale. Hit up the Ethiosys website and sign up today. See you [...]
December 24th, 2008 at 24 Dec 2008
[...] More information: http://www.enthiosys.com/news-events/pcamp09/ [...]
January 8th, 2009 at 08 Jan 2009
Session Proposal: “Open Source as Part of a Successful Product Strategy”. As one of the co-founders of the BIRT project, I’d be willing to share my experience.
January 12th, 2009 at 12 Jan 2009
[...] Registration: Register here. Check out Paul’s post on ProductBeautiful for more details. Second Annual P-Camp Silicon Valley When: Saturday March 14th, 2009 from 9:00am to 3:00pm+ Where: Yahoo! Building C, 701 First Ave, [...]
February 2nd, 2009 at 02 Feb 2009
Pilates as Strategy:
Specific exercises to help strengthen your business’ core and increase its flexibility.
Based on the article: http://www.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/2006/10/30/smallb4.html
A BOF session
February 17th, 2009 at 17 Feb 2009
Panel proposal: Career insights – can product management catapult you to executive roles or is it a dead-end job?
March 3rd, 2009 at 03 Mar 2009
thanks
let me know if more spaces open
March 10th, 2009 at 10 Mar 2009
P-Camp Topic – Stimulus Package Opportunities for IT?
I am looking forward to attending P-Camp. I wanted to see if there is any interest in a discussion on the major areas where IT will benefit from the Stimulus Package and what the opportunities look like.
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Please respond back and let me know if that sounds like a good idea and I will put some material together.
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In the meantime, I wrote an article on the subject and some of the finer aspects of getting started in government and education markets, if you want to learn more. http://tiny.cc/top5
March 15th, 2009 at 15 Mar 2009
[...] this year’s P-Camp, I learned a lot of things. Some about Product Management. Some about people. And some some about [...]
March 17th, 2009 at 17 Mar 2009
[...] Saturday, I attended P-Camp 2009, a product management unconference, at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, California. I missed last [...]
March 19th, 2009 at 19 Mar 2009
Next year can you add descriptions along with each of the session titles? Obviously this would be applicable only for those events that are identified in advance of p-camp. This would make it a LOT easier to determine if a session is relevant, and help me decide if I want to attend. Just a title alone is not enough.
[Rich: Thanks. We also might simplify this down, and have only morning-of-event proposals voted on by the group.]
April 2nd, 2009 at 02 Apr 2009
[...] my slides from my “Charm School for Product Managers” presentation that I gave at P-Camp Silicon Valley. Sorry about the [...]
May 15th, 2009 at 15 May 2009
[...] a quick shout out for ProductCamp NYC. I attended the Silicon Valley version and can personally attest to the value of spending time talking (and socializing) with Product [...]
May 26th, 2009 at 26 May 2009
[...] far this year, there have already been 4 (Silicon Valley, Boston, Austin, Raleigh-Durham) ProductCamps, and there are 4 more in the [...]