SVPMA Monthly Event - The Tyranny of Benchmarking with Mike Harding, Juniper Networks December 7, 2011

Organization: SVPMA - Silicon Valley Product Management Association
Topic: The Tyranny of Benchmarking
Speaker: Mike Harding, Vice President, Juniper Networks
Date: Wednesday, December 7th
Time: 6:30pm - 9pm
Location: Network Meeting Center at the TechMart - 5201 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara
Cost: Free for Members. $30 for pre-registered Non-Members. $40 at the door
More info: http://svpma.org/events/monthly-meetings/

Presentation:
Ever wonder why there are so many "me too," mediocre, and just plain bad products? Come to the December SVPMA session to learn about some of the common pitfalls that product designers often stumble into; like, Benchmarking.

As we wrap up another successfully year of sharing ideas, best practices and case studies for successful product management, this event will bring to you approaches available to enable you to design and build great products.

About The Speaker:
Mike Harding is an entreprenerd; mixing business and technology to solve hard problems. Over his 25 year career, Harding has founded seven startups and has had four successful exits. Two of these were dismal failures, for which Mike bears complete responsibility. He indicates that these failures represent at their worst "the most expensive business school in the world" and at their best "the most valuable learning experience about business, technology, and self." The remaining startup is still active, re.vu (pronounced review) - it is the cure for the common resume. In between startups, Mike has held executive leadership positions with Sun Microsystems, SAP, Charles Schwab & Co, and the US Department of Defense. His day job is leading the team that designs the products and programs to create a thriving software developer community for Juniper Networks. Mike is an autodidact. His education consists of his varied work experience, supplemented by reading (over 7,000 books,) professional training in his various roles, and a short, unsatisfactory stint at a public university. When not geeking out, Mike likes to spend time with his family and friends on the California coast hiking, kayaking, and hacking. @mah1 / http://re.vu/mikeharding