IN-PERSON: Products Don't Last Forever

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As product managers, we spend a lot of time on understanding customer problems, assessing ideas and opportunities and focusing on getting that new product delivery process just right. We follow up with launch parties, launch emails and celebrations. New things are always exciting, right? Look at us delivering great stuff to our customers!

But sometimes, delivering great value to customers or business, actually means sunsetting a product or a feature. So:

• how do you approach such a task?
• how should you even make that decision?
• once the decision is made, what needs to happen?

There are different reasons to sunset a product & Ana's talk, will have something for everyone. Ana will take us through her experiences of sunsetting different products, as well as look at some industry examples, and share her learnings.

Our speaker:
Ana Rowe is a Lead Consultant in Product Management at Thoughtworks, in their Customer Experience Service Line.

She has a great passion for customers. So much that she had a short career in market research and has a Masters degree in Marketing - and then realised that research alone is not enough to deliver great customer experiences.

Ana was one of the first Product Managers at SEEK, and has been working in product for over 15 years across Australia's leading digital organisations of all shapes and sizes, such as SEEK, REA, A Cloud Guru and more. You can follow her at @anarowe

Reminders for attending in-person:

• We're operating under covid safe protocols. This includes checking in, showing your vax certificate & not attending if you feel ill. We are accommodating social distancing.
• Arrive at 6pm for pizza, beverage & conversation
• We kick off the talk at 6:30pm
• If you are running late or lost, we often have a ProdAnon sign on the building door with a phone number to call for entry. Alternatively, posting to the ProdAnon slack or Twitter (@product_anon) is a good way of getting our attention.

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