SVPMA Monthly Event - 10 Best Practices for Successful Product Management with Yossi Zohar, Amdocs Product Business Group September 2, 2009

Organization: SVPMA - Silicon Valley Product Management Association
Topic: 10 Best Practices for Successful Product Management
Speaker: Yossi Zohar, Senior Director, CRM Business Line, Amdocs Product Business Group
Date: Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Time: 6:30pm - 9pm
Location: Network Meeting Center at the TechMart - 5201 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara
Cost: Free for Members. $25 for pre-registered Non-Members. $35 at the door.
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Presentation:
Managing software products is an exciting yet challenging job. For better or worse, the impact of product managers on the company’s success is huge. With the constant need to “do more with less”, product managers must more than ever put special focus on “critical path” processes under their responsibility, become the most effective in executing these processes, and eliminate any potential “release bottlenecks” to assure their product releases are delivered on time, on budget and with the highest quality.

This presentation will focus on 10 best practices that can help assure your success as a product manager, make you aware of some of the pitfalls in this profession and ultimately make your life easier. Areas visited include the importance of direct customer interaction, effective management of requirements and release scope, effective handling and triage of “software revolution” initiatives and the art of balancing between multiple release stakeholders with different, sometimes contradicting, interests.

Speaker:
Yossi Zohar is a veteran product management professional with over 22 years of experience in software. In the past 12 years, Yossi held a variety of product management, product marketing and product line P&L management roles in Amdocs.

As part of his career in Amdocs, Yossi led key strategic product initiatives, including playing a key role in Amdocs’ acquisition of Clarify from Nortel Networks in 2001, driving the integration of Clarify CRM and Amdocs’ Billing product lines following this acquisition and later on rolling out new CRM solutions such as Amdocs Intent-Driven Contact Center, Amdocs Self Service, and Amdocs Smart Agent Desktop.

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