Product Camp Melbourne is an unconference – ie most of the talks you see on the day are voted on by you – but we do organise a few talks before hand including our keynote.
This year we’re talking about culture – and your role in creating and shaping it. You do not need to be the head of HR or head of the department in order to influence the team and organisation culture.
Our speaker, Sara Zabukovec, will explore the essence of company and team culture, debunking common myths and emphasising how every team member, from individual contributors to leaders, shapes it through daily actions and decisions. She will share her insights on building a collaborative culture with software teams.
And it’s a wrap! Thank you to all the attendees, sponsors, speakers and volunteers for a wonderful Product Camp 2023!!! When we first started planning Camp in early 2023, we weren’t sure how many people would want to be in a large crowd or if we’d need to be wearing masks and still felt like there were a chance we wouldn’t be able to go ahead at all so… being in the room with 200 people and being able to experience camp again was fantastic!
If you have written a blog post or are speaker who’s written up your talk, reach out on the ProdAnon slack to be included below.
We hope you’ll read thru this little summary and give love to everyone involved including keynotes, sponsors, speakers & volunteers!
Our Keynotes: Ken Sandy & Kendra Vant
Product Camp is an ‘unconference’ which means most of the talks are done by attendees though we always organise a keynote or two.
This year we kicked off the day with Ken Sandy‘s Think Like a Product Manager Talk and closed it out with Kendra Vant‘s Kicking the Tyres of AI to See if it’s Right for Your Product. You can check out Ken’s book – The Influential PM – and Kendra’s Substack where she’s posted 4 articles related to her keynote.
Our sponsors are critically important as they give us a place to host Camp and make sure we are not hangry during the day. Massive thank you to:
Awesome sponsors!
Thank you for the Door Prizes!
Session 1 Talks
Our fantastic attendees offer to share their knowledge and hopes and pain by suggesting topics and then having those voted upon. We had 32 people come up to pitch which was fantastic to see. Thank you!!
First up we had …
Steve Bauer & Amir Ansari with ‘Product is the Enemy of UX‘ – their slides are here and now include the the audience participation via the tag clouds.
Georgia Hart from nDeva talked about finding a product manager job.
Ollie Newbery talked about how to find and tell captivating stories about your work. Slides here
Amplitude ran a workshop twice during the day on Finding your product’s Truth North.
Here's the sketch note of Georgia Hart's talk on how to find a product manager 👨🏫 pic.twitter.com/XmsfnDt2Kc
Shreya Pawar on the art of A/B experiments and drew from a e-comm case study
Brent Snook talked about going from conversation to backlog in minutes.
Andrew Murphy with Debugging Difficult Conversations. Andrew did a talk at NDC Oslo earlier this year on the same topic which can be watched on YouTube
