When: Saturday, March 14th, 2009 from 9:00AM to 4:00PM+
Where: Yahoo! Building C, 701 First Ave, Sunnyvale
What: P-Camp '09, the world's largest get-together of product managers
Cost: FREE (included lunch & a cool event t-shirt)
Map to Yahoo! Sunnyvale

Event Description

Second Annual P-Camp for Product Managers

Approx 350 of product managers, friends, colleagues and perfect strangers got together at the second annual P-Camp.

What is P-Camp? The world's largest free get-together of product managers. Loosely based on the successful BarCamp and Open Space formats, it is an intense ad hoc gathering of product folks to share, present, network, learn, laugh and discuss. This year, half of the agenda was created by attendees on the morning of the event, who brought ideas for discussions that they wanted to participate in. (Meet other product managers, share what you know, get your collectable t-shirt...)
The other half of the agenda included scheduled talks by product management thought leaders from all over the country, coming to P-Camp to share their passion.

Schedule

The Schedule has the time/space grid of sessions. Please link from the schedule to your session notes, presentations and any other materials that can help capture learnings for others.

Links to photos, other blogs, collections

Flickr photos tagged for pcamp09
...insert your links here...
event report for SVPMA newsletter by Keith Rayner

How to Use This Wiki

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What to Expect, How P-Camp Works

Unconferences are ad hoc events where the participants create their own content and social interactions throughout the day. P-Camp is loosely modeled on these, including BarCamps. Since we're product managers, though, we've added a little structure back into P-Camp. We brought in 18 product management thought leaders for some scheduled sessions alongside the dozens of sessions created and run that day by the attendees. This was not a passive "sit and watch" conference.

How to get involved:

• (Now that P-Camp is over, the best way to stay involved for next year is to sign up for Product Bytes, the Enthiosys newsletter, which will be the first rallying point for P-Camp 2010.)
• Be ready to participate: come with an idea for a session you can lead. You don't have to be an expert at your topic; as long as it's not too specific, there will probably be others who can help you out. You can also contribute to the conversation during a session. Use the blog below to share ideas with other attendees.
• Promote P-Camp through your social networks
• Check the volunteer checklist below for things we need help with
• SHOW UP AND BE PART OF THE FUN
• Bring a laptop. We'll be looking for volunteers to blog each session, post photos, etc. Yahoo! has public access WiFi in this facility.

How P-Camp works

• Starting at 9AM (Saturday, March 14th), we will open up a scheduling wall open for sessions, discussions, topics and panels. Bring your ideas, and we'll have an open forum for which topics to put on the scheduling wall.
• There will be many presentation rooms and discussion areas throughout Yahoo's conference area/cafeteria. Sessions will be assigned to each area.
• Starting at 10AM, you can participate in any of these sessions, or do your own social networking.
• Lunch will be around Noon, then back into sessions at 1PM
• The day ends when we've exhausted ourselves and our discussions/sessions.
• Volunteers will clean up the space that Yahoo! has generously let us use.

P-Camp Blog about Topics and Sessions

Sessions and discussions will be scheduled on the morning of P-Camp! You should bring ideas for panels and topics to the event and add them to our huge scheduling wall.

Volunteers

Thank you to all who chose to volunteer! We could not have done this without you.

Social Networking Groups

Become a Facebook P-Camp -->group member!
Become a LinkedIn P-Camp --> group member!
Use Zannel --> to share camera phone photos and captions!

Post your photos on Flickr --> and link it back to this wiki! Tag your photos as "pcamp09" (use space below)
Tweet about it with #pcamp09 tags and links to the event site.
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Some of the Panels and Talks...

Full schedule grid is up above, but here were some of the talks and speakers...

Nancy Frishberg & Meghan Ede - Innovation Games
Lane Halley - "User Interface Design for PMs
Ross Mayfield - panel on using Social Networking for Prod Mmgt
David Taber - "Design your customer before you design your product"
Rich Mironov - "How Agile Changes The Way You Do Product Management"
Erin Kinikin - "Working With Analysts" - panel
Chris Sims - "Agile 101"
Joy Montgomery - "Building the Base for Better Profits: Specifications, Standards and Procedures"
Nils Davis - "What do you use for requirements management?"
Jim Holland & Michael Hopkin - "Market Sensing, a Case Study"
Mara Krieps & Linda Merrick - "Agile Product Management: The Rosetta Stone
Catherine Connor - "Agile Product Management and CRM
Nancy Frishberg & Daniela Busse - Agile UX
Luke Hohmann - “Shaping Your Products With Prune The Product Tree”
Sudha Jamthe - “Platform Play - Taking a product to become a platform on web, social and mobile" (added panelists: Ed Maier, John Lin)
John Mansour - "The Requirements Value Chain"
Steve Tennant - "Maybe It's Not Your Sales VP - Avoiding the Top 12 Mistakes in Growing Product Revenues"
Tom Grant - "Agile Changes How Technology Companies Operate"

If you'd like to propose talks or panels, join the discussion thread Discuss P-Camp Topics

Sponsors

Thanks to the following for helping make this a free event:

Day-of-Event Blogging and Posting Guidelines

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