The Product Management View Newsletter
A newsletter for software product managers and marketers
Winter 2007
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New lineup of speakers announced for the Product Management View
2007 Webinar Series

Check out the latest group of speakers for the Product Management
View Weekly Webinar Series for the start of 2007 at:
http://www.featureplan.com/community/categories/webinars/

Learn about the latest, up-to-the-minute product management and
marketing issues from accomplished industry leaders, authors,
speakers and trainers.

Here is a sample of the upcoming webinars that you won't want to
miss:
• Agile Development Methodologies: How Product Management's Role is
Shifting, Laureen Knudsen, Hewlett-Packard Corporation
• Pragmatic Marketing Annual Benchmark Survey Results, Steve
Johnson, Pragmatic Marketing
• Understanding Requirements Concepts, Roger Cauvin from the Cauvin
Blog, http://cauvin.blogspot.com/
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Product Managers, Alyssa Dyer,
CEO of Wander Wear Inc. and author of Software Product Management
Essentials
• Surviving Product Management, Linda Gorchels, Director, Executive
Marketing Education, University of Wisconsin and author of The
Product Manager's Handbook (2006)
• The Bottom of the Sales Cycle is NOT the Contract, Jim Foxworthy,
Instructor, Pragmatic Marketing.
• Pragmatic Roadmapping: Aligning your Product Strategy with the
Market, John Milburn, Instructor, Pragmatic Marketing
• And many more!

See past webinars in the archived Webinars section, available for
download in flash or podcast format at:
http://www.featureplan.com/community/categories/webinar_archive/

So now there's no excuse not to take advantage of these amazing
educational webinars, sponsored by FeaturePlan.

Register for the upcoming Product Management View webinars today at:
http://www.featureplan.com/community/2005/11/webex_login.asp

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Software Marketing Perspectives (SMP) 2006 Conference - Boston, MA
If you only go to one event all year, make it this one

The SMP event, being held May 23-25, 2007 in Boston, MA, will bring
together software and service company executives to discuss new
business models for delivering software products and services, and
strategic directions in product management, market management,
marketing communications and public relations. Attendees will learn,
network and strategize.

The event will feature top experts and practitioners in technology
product management and marketing. To register, or to get more
information on this don't-miss event, visit http://www.smpevent.com/

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Don't forget to blog! http://www.featureplan.com/community/
Be sure to check out The Product Management View blog to see the
latest and greatest in the product management community. Explore,
read, post, comment, submit, and share your ideas with your fellow
technology product managers.

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Message from the Product Management View Sponsor, FeaturePlan:

Hot on the heels of the launch of FeaturePlan web interface is
FeaturePlan On-Demand, the requirements management software built
for Software Product Management – view the new 5 minute demo at:
http://www.featureplan.com/

FeaturePlan is doing double-duty by sponsoring and attending at
Product Management Association meetings around the world. Be sure
to come by and say hi!

Sponsoring and attending:
Raleigh, North Carolina: Triangle PMA, January 18, 2007.
Herzliah, Israel: ILPMA, February 7, 2007
London, UK: UK PMF, March 21, 2007

Attending:
Silicon Valley, CA – SVPMA: February 7, March 7, April 4
Boston, MA – BPMA: January 18, March 15, April 19
Toronto, ON – TPMA: January 30, February 27, March 27, April 24
Atlanta, GA – TAG Product Management: January 18, 2007

Note: All PMA website addresses are posted on right side of PMV Blog

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Register for The Product Management View Newsletter and Webinars at:
http://www.featureplan.com/community/2005/11/webex_login.asp