We are excited to announce the availability of a new book, "Expert
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Product Management & Product Marketing"!

Written by Brian Lawley, Founder of the 280 Group and President of the
Silicon Valley Product Management Association, Expert Product
Management teaches the reader how to create compelling product
roadmaps, plan and execute high-impact product launches,  run more
effective Beta programs and get great reviews for products.

Expert Product Management is available now at
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we ask is that if you like the book you purchase a printed copy and
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Office Professional version.

Brian will also be holding a book signing party on November 7th in
Santa Clara, CA prior to the SVPMA (www.svpma.org) monthly event. If
you are in Silicon Valley come and join us for food, beverages and
networking and pick up a signed copy ($5 discount for SVPMA members).

PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO YOUR COLLEAGUES AND ANY OTHER
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guys, I just got this calendar reminder and I checked out the list
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I and I'm sure (almost) everyone else here joined this group to
improve our networking, and not receive more spam! Mr. Moderator,
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Karthik,

Done. Thanks for your note.

Gabriel,

Thanks. We'll follow your recommendation if we see more spam in future.
Spam filter is on and I see spams being blocked by yahoogroup. Also
made limited access to calender posting.


Regards,

Bikram Gupta
http://www.BikramGupta.com


--- In IPMF@yahoogroups.com, "Karthikeyan Ramnath" <kr.talkback@...>
wrote:
>
> guys, I just got this calendar reminder and I checked out the list
> cal to see that the event is supposed to repeat everyday!
>
> I and I'm sure (almost) everyone else here joined this group to
> improve our networking, and not receive more spam! Mr. Moderator,
> could you kindly delete that calendar entry and ban the jerk that put
> it up?
>

thanks Bikram

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:14:13 +0530, Bikram Gupta <bikramkgupta@...>
wrote:

> Karthik,
>
> Done. Thanks for your note.
>
> Gabriel,
>
> Thanks. We'll follow your recommendation if we see more spam in future.
> Spam filter is on and I see spams being blocked by yahoogroup. Also
> made limited access to calender posting.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Bikram Gupta
> http://www.BikramGupta.com
>
>
> --- In IPMF@yahoogroups.com, "Karthikeyan Ramnath" <kr.talkback@...>
> wrote:
>>
>> guys, I just got this calendar reminder and I checked out the list
>> cal to see that the event is supposed to repeat everyday!
>>
>> I and I'm sure (almost) everyone else here joined this group to
>> improve our networking, and not receive more spam! Mr. Moderator,
>> could you kindly delete that calendar entry and ban the jerk that put
>> it up?
>>
>
>

Which conference do you think Product Managers should attend in 2008?

We at the AIPMM have three conferences coming up in 2008.

The Product Management Educational Conference West (PMEC West) April 1-3,
2008 in San Diego, CA  [Registration opens December 1, 2007]
The Product Management Educational Conference India (PMEC India) March
11-12, 2008 in Bangalore [ Registration opens December 5, 2007]
The Product Management Educational Conference East (PMEC East) October 2008
in Washington DC Metro (pending final date)  [Registration opens April 1,
2008]

The website at AIPMM.com will be updated when registration opens for each
event.  If you are interested in the "preview" information, write me
privately and I will keep you informed.

Warm regards,

Therese Padilla
President, AIPMM



-----Original Message-----
From: IPMF@yahoogroups.com [mailto:IPMF@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
Sachendra
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 8:23 PM
To: IPMF@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [IPMF] What conference should Product Managers attend in 2008

Which conference do you think Product Managers should attend in 2008?




Yahoo! Groups Links

Dear Sir,



  How are you !



  Please ignore the mail if you had already received it.





  Posting Job Title :



  Product Manager for Cisco Security - Monitoring Analysis and
Response
  System

  (CS-MARS)





  Functional Unit :



  STG





  Organization :



  CDO - Chief Development Office





  Primary Work Location :



  India-Bangalore





  Would you consider paying

  relocation? :



  Yes





  External Job Description :



  Cisco Security Techonolgy Group develops and markets security
products
  and

  solutions for Cisco"s Self-Defending Network. These products protect

  customer investments by providing infrastructure, perimeter and
  application

  level security, including products to deploy, operate and monitor
  policy

  throughout the infrastructure.



  Cisco Security - Monitoring Analysis and Response System (CS-MARS)
is
  a

  critical glue to help tie the components of Cisco Self-Defending
  Network

  together. It enables customers to monitor security policies
  effectively.

  Members of the team being formed in Bangalore will have ample
  opportunities

  to learn how large enterprises and service providers deploy network
  security

  solutions. Knowledge that this team builds will be utilized to
  transform our

  product to in terms of feature richness, as also to meet operational

  challenges such as scalability, usability, virtualization and high

  availability.



  Cisco Security Technology Group is looking to hire a Product Manager
  to be

  part of the Cisco Security Monitoring Analysis and Response (CS-
MARS)
  team.



  The ideal candiate will be expected to:



  - Define product requirements and partner with the Engineering team
to
  drive

  these into the product, participating in technical and architectural

  discussions

  - Lead cross-functional virtual teams to bring together an execution
  plan

  for delivery of features into products over successive releases

  - Develop competitive, market analysis understanding and prioritizing

  customer needs and build business case for delivering capabilities
  into the

  product

  - Communicate new features and functionality to customers, channels,
  sales

  teams in multiple internal and external forums

  - Influence, co-ordinate and negotiate within cross-functional and

  cross-Business Unit teams to identify dependancies and build
  collaborative

  roadmaps

  - Demo product to customers, partners and sales teams and have
ability
  to

  work through complex technical & market issues with clarity

  - Have experience in complete hardware & software product life-cycle
  issues

  related to product management such as product launch, sustainance,

  transition and End-of-Life



  The ideal candiate must exhibit:



  - Flexibility in a fast-paced, ever-changing, deadline-oriented team
  and

  environment

  - Very strong technical background in IP networking, security
  protocols and

  ideally in security policy management and monitoring

  - A self-starter attitude with strong written, oral and presentation
  skills

  - An outstanding ability to work cross-functionally with both
internal
  and

  external teams as well as with functional business leaders

  - Solid technical, industry and business knowledge in the Security
  industry



  The position requires a Bachelors in CS/EE or Marketing or
equivalent
  plus

  7-10 years experience in marketing / Product management in
networking,

  security and/or applications. Advance (Graduate) degree preferred.
The

  position is a Grade 10, based in Bangalore, and reports to the
Manager
  of

  Product Management. The candidate will be expected to work closely
  with the

  Engineering team co-located in Bangalore (India), San Jose
  (California),

  Austin (Texas) as part of a distributed multi-site team.

Please send your  updated resume to

GattiSantosh@...
GattiSantosh@...
GattiSantosh@...

Regards,
Santosh Kumar

Hi,

Does anyone in the group have any techniques, tools, or ideas to
assist in brainstorming with a "virtual" (distributed) team

Thanks
Sachendra Yadav

Thought you might be interested in the upcoming Agile Webinar on "How Product Management Must Change to Enable the Agile Enterprise," presented by Catherine Connor, Director of Product Marketing, Rally Software Development.

The topic was the best session I attended at the recent Austin SMP Conference in October. Fortunately, Catherine agreed to repeat this Webinar for the Product Management View (PMV) Webinar Series.

You can get more information, and register to attend at the following link http://TheAgilePMwebinar.notlong.com

If you can not attend session live, it will be recorded and posted as a podcast and flash video at the following address http://community.featureplan.com/community/webinar_archive/ 

There are over 100 free product management best practice webinars available for viewing on the PMV Website at http://community.featureplan.com/community/webinar_archive/  I invite you to take a look at your convenience.  

Also, Ryma Technology Solutions and Rally Software announced last week the integration of FeaturePlan, the leading Product Management software solution and Rally Software, the leading Agile Requirements Management solution.  Here are the links for the Press Release and a 5 minute flash demonstration of the benefits of the combined solution.

FeaturePlan / Rally Press Release http://www.featureplan.com/ryma/press-releases/pr44.htm

FeaturePlan / Rally 5 min recorded demo http://FeaturePlanandRally.notlong.com

Finally, here is a link to the new Ideation module for FeaturePlan.  If you want to automate the collection and prioritization of ideas and enhancements, please take a look at the 5-minute Ideation module demo at http://Ideation5mindemo.notlong.com

Russell Foy                          

Tel:       +1 905 709 3503                     

foyr@...

1. Total no of experience related to PM
2. Domain expertise with capability to have the best of strategy and tactics 
3. Salary till now

Folks,

 

Few days back, I recently came across an article on Avg Salaries of PM's in US.

 

Does anyone know whether such data has been published for India?

 

I thought, why not we take a opinion poll on this and gather the data?

 

Please find attached the excel sheet.

 

If opinion poll goes well, the benefits are,

 

1)  We can compile the data and can publish to some new-wire whoever is interested to publish?

2) Even this data can be useful for AIPMM as well as even useful in the seminar they are planning in March 2008 in Bangalore.

 

Howz the idea?

 

I sincerely request all Senior PM's to contribute to this thread.

 

Recruitors on this list can feed more help us seeking the data ;)

 

Thanks and Best Regards,

 

-Yogesh

 

There are other sources like salary.com and payscale that do this. Do we
need this duplication? Dont remember which one but, either support pay
scales in India too!

Further, if this has to be 'authoritative' then we need to do a LOT more
work that merely mention individual salaries.

Cheers,
kr.
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:55:39 +0530, Palanisamy, Devanand (Devanand)
<devanand@...> wrote:

> Yogesh,
>    I would recommend you to upload the xls in the IPMF site and open it
> for the members so that they could directly update the sheet rather
> everyone sending their version and someone consolidate it.
> Regards,
> Devanand.
>
> From: IPMF@yahoogroups.com [mailto:IPMF@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> Yogesh Hublikar.
> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2007 8:23 AM
> To: IPMF@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [IPMF] What's average salary of PM in India?
>
>
>
> Folks,
> Few days back, I recently came across an article on Avg Salaries of PM's
> in US.
> Does anyone know whether such data has been published for India?
> I thought, why not we take a opinion poll on this and gather the data?
> Please find attached the excel sheet.
> If opinion poll goes well, the benefits are,
> 1)  We can compile the data and can publish to some new-wire whoever is
> interested to publish?
> 2) Even this data can be useful for AIPMM as well as even useful in the
> seminar they are planning in March 2008 in Bangalore.
> Howz the idea?
> I sincerely request all Senior PM's to contribute to this thread.
> Recruitors on this list can feed more help us seeking the data ;)
> Thanks and Best Regards,
> -Yogesh
> .
> <http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=97359714/grpId=19045530/grpspId=1705416045/
> msgId=143/stime=1195786384/nc1=3848640/nc2=4670553/nc3=5008828>
>

The topic was the best session I attended at the recent Austin SMP Conference in October. Fortunately, Catherine agreed to repeat this Webinar for the Product Management View (PMV) Webinar Series.

You can get more information, and register to attend at the following link http://TheAgilePMwebinar.notlong.com

If you can not attend session live, it will be recorded and posted as a podcast and flash video at the following address http://community.featureplan.com/community/webinar_archive/ 

There are over 100 free product management best practice webinars available for viewing on the PMV Website at http://community.featureplan.com/community/webinar_archive/  I invite you to take a look at your convenience. 

Also, Ryma Technology Solutions and Rally Software announced last week the integration of FeaturePlan, the leading Product Management software solution and Rally Software, the leading Agile Requirements Management solution.  Here are the links for the Press Release and a 5 minute flash demonstration of the benefits of the combined solution.

FeaturePlan / Rally Press Release http://www.featureplan.com/ryma/press-releases/pr44.htm

FeaturePlan / Rally 5 min recorded demo http://FeaturePlanandRally.notlong.com

Finally, here is a link to the new Ideation module for FeaturePlan.  If you want to automate the collection and prioritization of ideas and enhancements, please take a look at the 5-minute Ideation module demo at http://Ideation5mindemo.notlong.com

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ZIGZAG Marketing recently conducted a survey to uncover the most common issues companies experience following a merger or acquisition.  Many of these issues have a direct impact on product management and product marketing.  The survey was conducted in October 2007.  Over 200 professionals at all levels responded to the survey.  We're pleased to present the results.

Post-Acquisition Survey Results

1. My company has been through a merger or acquisition

Within the last 6 months                                                    34 % 
   

6 months - 1 year                                                     13 %

1 - 2 years                                                              14 %

More than 2 years                                                     39 %

2. Before the merger or acquisition was finalized:

Strategy & Operational Plans were finalized for the combined
companies                                                               14 %

A strategy was completed but no operational plan          28 %

Only an operational plan was completed                        15 %

Neither                                                                                   43 %

3. Please rate the following post-merger/acquisition challenges from 1-8 with 1 being the most challenging:

1. Debates on technology platforms

2. Technical integration of products

6. Ineffective/divided sales force

7. Disagreement on product direction

8. Aligning people to support a new organization

9. Other

4. Now that you have the benefit of hindsight, what would you have done differently?

Most Popular Answers:

• Better planning and faster merge implementation
• Challenge people to align with strategy or leave
• Get a clearer operational plan in place along with a product direction.
• Better communication of strategic direction throughout the company
• More time planning & strategizing
• More emphasis on how to integrate (infrastructure & culture) of acquired businesses!
• More upfront planning, more aggressive cuts upfront
• Communication announcements weekly
• Push for a 3 year integration plan with milestones, accountability, and measurable results
• More face to face meetings, faster decisions on product platforms and sales territories.  Celebrate and communicate early wins.
• Spent more time focusing on the right management
• Build better communications plans
• Ensure the target market and sales strategy was aligned from day 1
• Better planning and communications
• More effort to combine sales forces
• Leave the acquisition as a standalone business unit and NOT try to integrate each of its departments into the acquiring organization.
• Look at situation for what it was, not what it promised to be
• Read Who Moved My Cheese beforehand
• Integration of sales teams, clear market messages, operational plans, etc.
• More planning.  Better communication with rank & file on company direction
• Should have left the company earlier

5. My role in the organization is:

Senior Executive – CXX, SVP                                                13 %

 

Senior Manager – VP, Director, Sr. Mgr                                       48 %

 

Manager                                                                           28 %

 

Engineer                                                                           2 %

 

Other Staff Professional                                                       9 %

As technology progresses more and more features keep getting added to
mobile phones. However, the key must-haves without which you don't
ship a mobile have been Voice call and SMS for a very long time. Is
there a feature (internet, music, camera....) that has the potential
to be added to the key must-haves for ALL mobile phones (even the
lowest of the low tier) in the coming year.

Or is it still too early for that?

-Sachendra Yadav