WORKSHOP: New Product Development In Four Steps

WORKSHOP: New Product Development

In Four Steps with Alex Cowan

Tuesday, October 9, 6-9pm at Cruzio

http://photos4.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/5/4/6/c/event_163221612.jpegNothing aids success like preparation. We particularly recommend this workshop to Tech Raising participants who have a new product or business idea they're developing. In the workshop, you'll learn how to develop your idea and make it developer-ready. In the first hour, author and tech executive Alex Cowan will lay out four of high tech's most effective practices. Alex will then kick off a working session with participants and remain for one-on-one assistance for the next two hours. The workshop does not assume or require an engineering background.

In the workshop, Alex will cover:

IDEATION:

what ‘design thinking’ means how you can apply it right now PLANNING

practical applications of best current practices, including: - lean thinking- assumptions, experimentation, validation, and learning application of the scientific method business model canvas practical financial management ORGANIZATION

how startup’s (internal or external) should differ from established organizations what a good customer development teams looks like (and what it doesn’t look like) AGILE

what it likes to participate in an agile environment as the ‘product owner’ how agile fits like a glove with the items above, particularly design thinking PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

how you can become a stronger, more independent contributor in six weeks EXAMPLES

an end to end example of how all this looks for a new product templates and tools to get you started Alex studied Economics, Engineering, and Chinese at Stanford University. His first startup, Compass, now operates as Govplace providing enterprise solutions to government. He got his first view of a Silicon Valley startup as an intern at Trilogy Development Group and in 1999 left Stanford to join Scout Electronics. Following Scout, Alex contributed at other wireless startups and later joined VoIP applications provider BroadSoft, running their professional services business. In 2007 Alex founded Leonid where he is now CTO. Alex has always had a strong interest in helping others distill, understand, and apply best practices to their business. His role as a mentor and advisor to other startup’s led to his writing ‘Starting a Tech Business (http://alexandercowan.com)’ with the team at Wiley.

You'll leave this session with practical tools you can start applying the next day.

For more on Alex and 'Starting a Tech Business' please see www.alexandercowan.com (http://alexandercowan.com).