SVPMA Monthly Event - Collaborative Roadmap Development with Luke Hohmann, Founder and CEO, Enthiosys May 6, 2009

Organization: SVPMA - Silicon Valley Product Management Association
Topic: Collaborative Roadmap Development
Speaker: Luke Hohmann, Founder and CEO, Enthiosys
Date: Wednesday, May 6th, 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:
Living between the timeframe of corporate strategy and the current release, a good product roadmap serves to guide the internal activities of the company as well as binds customers to the organization because they know where you’re heading. Unfortunately, many product managers equate a simple PowerPoint slide in which the next three releases are shown with bulleted features as a good product roadmap. In doing so, these product managers fail to leverage the power of a good roadmapping process. In this presentation, Luke will define a more effective roadmap structure and describe several collaborative games to help product teams work with internal and external stakeholders to create useful, actionable roadmaps.

Speaker:
Luke Hohmann is CEO of Enthiosys, an agile product management consulting firm, a recognized expert on agile product management and a former product executive at four companies. He is also the author of three books ("Innovation Games," "Beyond Software Architecture" and "Journey of the Software Professional") and numerous articles on software product management.

At Enthiosys, he works with clients on collaborative customer input and Innovation Games, product roadmaps, pricing and licensing strategy, and agile transformation. Before founding Enthiosys in 2003, Luke was vice president of business development in the U.S. for Aladdin Knowledge Systems; vice president of engineering and product development at Aurigin Systems; education technical director at ObjectSpace; and vice president of systems engineering at EDS Fleet Services.

Luke is a board member of the Agile Alliance, and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), IEEE and Product Development and Management Association (PDMA). Luke graduated magna cum laude with a B.S.E. in computer engineering and an M.S.E. in computer science and engineering from the University of Michigan.

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