PM x UX, a new breed?

Hello, woof, moo, miauw!

On October 4, world animal day, we will inspect what may be a new breed: a mixture of Product Manager and User Experience practitioner. This will happen during another edition of the Amsterdam UX Cocktail Hours ("since 2001").

Our host Emakina (https://www.emakina.com/) will present a case study around the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, and this will be followed by the presentation "Superfriends" by Christian Crumlish, author of the book "Product Management for UX People". See below for a description of that talk.

As usual, the schedule will be roughly like this:
- 18:00 - doors open, drinks and snacks/pizza
- 19:00 - 19:15 - welcome to the Amsterdam UX Cocktail Hours
- 19:15 - 19:30 - welcome to Emakina
- 19:30 - 20:00 - Case Study: Holocaust Memorial
- 20:00 - 20:30 - break, with drinks and snacks/pizza
- 20:30 - 21:00 - Christian Crumlish presents "SUPERFRIENDS"
- 21:00 - 21:30 - drinks and snacks/pizza
- 21:30 doors close

Let me know if you have questions via peter@peterboersma.com.

SUPERFRIENDS
The Power of the Product Management and User Experience / Design Relationship
Most teams today are struggling with the overlap between UX and PM. Even teams with strong leadership alignment find they need to spend time and energy working through unspoken assumptions, accidents of history, quirks of individual personalities, and other legacy baggage.
Is it really possible to get user experience and product management pulling on the same oars together or are the two adjacent practices doomed to talk past each other till a new paradigm sweeps them both aside?
The good news is that product and UX can indeed learn to fuse their disciplines into a lens that focuses the team like a laser on the needs of the customer and the essential factors that make a business sustainable.
In SUPERFRIENDS, Christian Crumlish (author of Product Management for UX People: From Designing to Thriving in a Product World) will lay out the sometimes ugly reality and unfinished business of sorting out product vs. design turf. He’ll lay out a framework for evaluating the practices and proficiencies unique to and shared by each discipline, and provide practical tips and exercises that can help enable individual teams to find their most productive paths forward.