ProductTank Wroclaw #10 - Sharing best practices on building products

We will have all the speakers live streamed on the main MindTheProduct YouTube channel. Join us during the live stream, especially if you want to ask questions or watch us later at your convenience!

1. Stanisław Plebanek / Product Manager Lean Enterprise Institute Poland
   "The WHY of Product Management best practices"

In this talk, Stanisław will share with you my thoughts on WHY some of the common product management best practices are so effective. We've all heard at some point that it's beneficial to set hypotheses and test them early in the development, meet regularly with the development team or plan ahead only a certain portion of your time. But how did these practices emerge? What is the story behind them? Bringing in research from the intersection of psychology, engineering and product development will help to answer these questions. Both software and hardware product managers should find some insights here.

Bio:
Stanisław is a husband, a dad of four and a product manager. His experience includes 10 years in Business Software and Lean Management. Since 2010 he has been studying Lean Product Development. He is a certified Professional Scrum Product Owner and a postgraduate in psychology in management. His career goal is to build products people love. Product-Dad.com is his new blog where he describe the synergies between fatherhood and the craft of product management.

2. Damian Nowak / ONAP Product Owner Nokia
   "Productizing open-source"

Open-source software is mainly seen by business as a chance to eat a “free breakfast”. In fact, it is not really free, and usually quite raw - it requires work to use it in production. The presentation focuses on different approaches and possibilities of building products “based on”, “using” and “leveraging” open-source. It brings as well certain dependencies into light, and discusses common traps and possible mistakes, when building products using open-source software.

Bio:
Damian deals with an open-source ONAP platform development at Nokia, as a Product Owner. He started his IT journey about 13 years ago, starting from software testing automation, thru a number of architecture and product management roles. Today, he is working together with Nokia Product Management and Technical teams to plan, develop and deliver automation capabilities in service of biggest cellular operators around the globe.

3. Paweł Guśpiel i Paweł Stobiecki / Ocado Technology
   "User-driven product development - a life full of surprises"

Do you know if you’re driving your product in the right direction? Where do you know it from? Is it factual knowledge, or merely a belief? Are you sure you and your team are in the same boat about it?
Two years ago, when we started a design sprint about our data workflow application’s new UI, we also thought we knew what we were looking for... Since then, we’ve experienced a rollercoaster of proved and disproved hypotheses. Through user testing and shamelessly early releases we shattered our beliefs in exchange for extremely helpful products, done quickly, with confidence and team buy-in. In this talk, we will show this path to you on two examples, and explain why it’s possible to follow it in your company too!

Paweł Guśpiel

Paweł is a product manager at Ocado Technology in Kraków. He has over 6 years of experience in product management role, 13 years in software developer/lead role. He spent that time on gaining experience in creating highly valuable products, by focusing on creating good quality software, managing process and people and of course managing the product itself.

Paweł Stobiecki

A software developer for 8 years "with a lot of PM force in him" - for him the fancy tech is just a tool to create game-changing products that help people in a tangible way. Through his other hobby, board game design, he became an advocate for rapid prototyping and (sometimes extreme) user testing in driving software products the right way.