While not all of my keynotes, below is a selection of talks and videos, that go back 10 years.
Past Talks
The Product of You
Mind the Product Manchester, 2020
How do you get to be a Chief Product Officer? In this talk, Melissa Perri talks about how you should start investing energy in “the product of you” and plan your career ascent to product leader. This includes not only developing the skills you need as a product leader, but also deciding what type of product leader you want to be: VP at a Startup, CPO at Growth Stage, or an Enterprise Leader.
Audience: Product Managers and Product LeadersHow do you get to be a Chief Product Officer?
Escaping the Build Trap
Lean Agile Scotland in 2016
Are you building what your customers really want, or are you just building? The "Build Trap" is easy to fall into, especially in Agile transformations. Instead of focusing on building, we need to shift our focus to good Product Management strategies that help us validate our ideas before we start coding.
Beyond Pretty
Agile on the Beach 2014
Learn how Lean principles can be applied to Agile UX and software teams to iterate our way to engaging sites customers will love. Get an into practices and tools you can start using immediately to ensure customers are getting the most value out of your products.
Continuous Product Improvement
Agile on the Beach in 2015
Learn how you can use Continuous Improvement techniques in product discovery and iteration to create products that achieve business goals and satisfy user needs. We’ll explore how Toyota Kata and Kaizen in product development team helps bring about a culture of collaboration, experimentation, and metric oriented results.
Mind the Product, 2017
Are you building what your customers want, or are you just building? When successful companies first started out, they had to constantly deliver value to understand what their users wanted. This grew their business. Many large companies that have been around for decades, or even newer startups that have found some stability, fall into a dangerous place called “The Build Trap”. They continue building feature after feature, without stopping to validate it’s what customer truly want and need. This is due in part to poor understanding of Product Strategy, Product Management, and how to manage teams. In order to get out of “The Build Trap”, businesses need to restructure their thinking to focus on finding value for the user through experimentation to achieve business goals.