Hi all,

While we’re focused on bringing Melbourne based product managers together, there’s a Product Camp happening up the road from us… or maybe it’s more like … a short flight away.

The last Saturday this month, May 26th, Brainmates are hosting Product Camp Sydney for the 3rd year in a row. If you’re up for a weekend away & hanging out with other product managers, c’mon along. There’s usually a few of us from Melbourne who go.

FYI, typically there are drinks after the event & us out of towners continue on for dinner after that.

For more info, check out Product Camp Sydney. if you’re interested, you can suggest a topic or offer to lead a conversation or present. RSVP here.

FYI, Brainmates will be hosting a product camp in melbourne later this year (october).

At our last product anonymous session, we discussed backlogs.

… That is, after we navigated around the comedy show & had a bit of a get to know you session as there were a few new faces!!

To follow up… here’s a few good articles on the backlog:

How Uservoice uses Trello to manage their backlog

A great article on the agile’product owner’ role from on product management which puts the focus of the product role on prioritising stories – Good Bye “Product Owner”, Hello “Backlog Manager”

Pragmatic webinar with Luke Hohmann Prioritizing Your Backlog for Profit & an article by Luke about how prioritising the agile backlog for roi doesn’t work.

Great article in Forbes – How to be a great product manager: Who will be the next Marissa Mayer?

Great because it addresses that people don’t really know what product management is.   There!  The elephant in the room is spoken about!

One of the items I believe product anonymous could help address is this issue of educating the industry, bosses, CEOs, co-workers, the agile community and everyone else about product management.   If you think this would be helpful, comment below!  Let us know if this should be addressed at a meeting in the future.

The article is also great because it points out the lack of a product management school or degree (unless you’re in Google’s Associate PM program it seems).   Yes, there is training to be had but you don’t major in product management.  Considering how broad the role is, that’s probably a good thing but very different to other career paths.

What did you think of the article?

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