Manage a product - PM and Engineering Night

To be or not to be a PM?

Can you walk the walk or are you just all talk? You improve by doing, not talking.

Collaborate with software engineers and work on a web/mobile product in small groups. Have fun working on features, design, and learn from each other.

The event will be co-hosted by Ruben Abergel, founder of http://hackerhours.com .

Why?

In a Quora post "What distinguishes the top 1% PM from the top 10% (http://www.quora.com/Product-Management/What-distinguishes-the-Top-1-of-Product-Managers-from-the-Top-10)," Ian McAllister lists among others:

• Simplify (features)

• Understand technical trade-offs

• Understand good design

As with anything else, it's all practice. Practice confidently and clearly collaborating with a software engineer and discuss these elements of a web or mobile product.

For Whom?

Anyone interested in working on a product, honing technical understanding, or connecting with folks from the software engineering community. Both aspiring and current PMs.

We are collaborating with the Ruby community:

https://www.meetup.com/sfruby/events/177937982/

Format

630 - Intros & brief walkthrough of goals

645 - 815 - Collaborate and build

815 - 830 - Debrief and wrap-up

Food

• Food/drinks are provided - thank you Indiegogo!

More for you

You may also like:

• How to Drive Product Success (https://www.meetup.com/ProductManagementFastTrack/events/169745562/) with Teresa Torres

• Lunch and PM Job Office Hours (https://www.meetup.com/ProductManagementFastTrack/events/177918402/)

• Join our 5/28 book discussion for Hooked (http://goo.gl/aRnB8i).

After Event

Please complete a post-event survey (http://goo.gl/O2LYmQ) and subscribe to a weekly PM reading digest (http://goo.gl/G9W27t).

Follow @PMFastTrack (http://twitter.com/PMFastTrack) and LinkedIn Group (http://goo.gl/UC1KjW).

Want to join the team? Apply here (http://goo.gl/PDWGRI).