Agile Product Management

This month, we have a product management guru from Singapore, Michael Ong, who will share his experiences. Michael is a senior agile guy with focus on UI/UX and product. Michael will do a 15 minute presentation and after that, facilitate an open space about product management. Simple setup, great content!

About Michael's talk and background:

How to Set Product Priorities

Great products rarely happen by luck — they involve careful planning, consideration, and management. In this talk, you'll learn how to put together a product or project roadmap that inspires by studying and applying an objective and collaborative prioritization method that balances both value and effort, helping stakeholders focus on what's important and come to consensus.

Takeaways

• Set product or project goals based on company strategic goals

• Learn the art of shuttle diplomacy as a way to get buy-in on your priorities

About the Speaker
Michael Ong (https://thecollabfolks.com/partner-profiles/michael-ong/)

Michael is a trainer and coach for The Collab Folks specialising in Agile Development, User Experience Design and Product management.

Michael has 16 years of experience working across multiple geographies and cultures.

He has worked in various technologies across a number of industries with a combination of local and multinational teams. These relationships have helped sharpen his skills to facilitate effective interactions with stakeholders, management, project teams and customers.

His specialties include Product Management, Mobile/Web/Application Development, User Experience Design, Business Process, Strategic Partnership, Scrum, Agile Project Management, Networking, Server Architecture, Workflow, and Databases.

His versatile approach helps guide teams to grow together to deliver business value.

He is active member of Agile Singapore and co-organiser of UX Singapore and Product Works (aka Product #beer), the latter of which brings together product teams.