Presentation This Morning
I had a presentation this over via conference call; from my point of view, it went great. I’m going to get some survey results later in the week that could either prove me to be somewhat right or completely off the mark.
Jeff Lash was kind enough to contact me about taking part in an ongoing session he organizes for the product management teams at Elsevier. We decided that I would discuss working with development; a subject I am quite familiar with from my time in start-ups to this point in my career, and having started out as a developer myself.
One of the interesting things I noted was that even though I’m a start-up guy and Elsevier is a much larger organization than what I’m used to, the concepts all held water. Some language was different or org structures were different, but 99% of what I wanted to say was still true. Very cool stuff.
In the same style as my talk with the Product Management View, I kept my deck very, very minimal. I figure, unless I’m face-to-face, I don’t want to have distracting pictures and other “hilarious” bits in there. Just the facts. 3-4 points or less per slide. When I get going, I’ll only use the slide headers as guidance. Sometimes I’ll reference points on the slide itself, but usually, I just keep it pretty loose.
You can download the deck if you are interested in checking it out.
Anyway, enough about what I like to do during presentations. The group that joined in on the call was amazing - they had some fantastic questions and really seemed to get something out of it. To the best of my knowledge, no one fell asleep, which is a metric I like to use when gauging my success of speaking to a group.
I know there are some PMs reading this out there. I encourage you, a lot, to contact Jeff Lash to discuss taking part in his sessions. It’s a great experience, Jeff is a super smart and nice guy, and plus you get to talk about something you (hopefully) really love - product management.
Thanks again for the great opportunity, Jeff!
