Product Work Is People Work

Metrics, features, and strategy matter — but the hardest parts of product work usually aren’t technical. They’re human.

Join us for an honest, energizing roundtable about the people side of building products: navigating disagreement, earning trust, aligning stakeholders, and making progress when incentives, emotions, and power dynamics don’t neatly line up.

Special guest: Tyler Walker will talk in the second half of the evening about how his team at Groundfloor Finance implemented Scrum, hated it, then started kicking ass with it.

This month, we’re focusing on the truth many PMs learn the hard way: product work is people work.

We’ll talk about the conversations behind the specs — the ones that shape decisions long before anything ships. Expect real stories, thoughtful dialogue, and practical ways to handle the messy, relational parts of the job that rarely make it into frameworks or job descriptions.

(Plus pizza!)

You’ll walk away with:

• Strategies for navigating conflict and disagreement productively
• Ways to build trust and influence without formal authority
• Techniques for aligning stakeholders when goals don’t match
• Stories from other builders about hard conversations—and what they learned

Join us for our monthly in-person roundtable of The Product Group Hudson Valley, a local chapter of one of the world’s longest-running product management communities.

Who should attend: Product managers, aspiring PMs, product designers, founders, engineers, and anyone whose work sits at the intersection of people, decisions, and products—whether you’re just starting out or leading teams.

Takeaway: Learn practical, human-centered approaches to moving work forward when alignment isn’t automatic.

Format: Interactive roundtable discussion. Everyone participates, shares experiences, and learns from one another.

This is your invitation to:

• Be a part of a growing Hudson Valley product community
• Connect with thoughtful local builders and leaders
• Leave with insights you can apply immediately in your work

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About Tyler Walker: Tyler is a full-stack software engineer and mobile expert. A Scrum and Agile convert (but not a freak about it), he’s lead multiple full-stack and mobile teams. Tyler is dedicated to creating user-centric software and healthy engineering culture.

About the venue: Inspired by the coworking and localism movements in the early aughts, Beahive is a pioneering network of hives for work and belonging — the first and only of its kind in the Hudson Valley, one of only a handful in all of NY, and one of probably only a few hundred in the world when it opened.