The Global Product Management Talk On Removing Silos Between Product Management And Engineering

Online, June 5, 2011 (Newswire.com) - There is a growing trend in streamlining and removing organizational barriers between Product Management and Engineering groups in order to accelerate time to market and improve market satisfaction while avoiding redundancy. Product Management is responsible for driving product vision and defining product strategy, and must have complete alignment across the organization in order to be effective.

Each week, The Global Product Management Talk features an expert guest speaker who raises questions to stimulate the twitter discussion in response to questions pre-posted on Facebook.

John Haniotis, Senior Vice President of Products at Accept, is responsible for product management and engineering. He manages Accept's on- and offshore product development teams. A four-time Accept customer, John joined Accept Corporation from Intuit's Small Business Ecosystem platform and Financial Software Group where he was a Product Management and Strategy leader. There he was instrumental in pioneering a companywide Requirements Management process. Prior to Intuit, he guided the product management efforts of Aspect Communications, Chordiant, Halcyon and Neoforma. John has also held leadership positions at Global Village Communications and Apple Computer.

John will be "speaking" at the weekly Twitter event on Monday, June 6, 2011 at 4:00 PM Pacific Time, which will be Tuesday, June 7 at 10:00 AM Australian Time.

"I am very excited at the opportunity to connect with the wider Product Management community on twitter. My interest is to share and learn through exchange the best ways to identify and tackle PM challenges in order to make the Product Management more effective and valuable to the organization while bringing to market products which better meet customer needs and are profitable in doing so," stated Haniotis.

Tweet traveled 7400 miles

The Global Product Management Talk was conceived by Cindy F. Solomon, a San Francisco Bay Area certified product manager who engages knowledge communities and embraced by Adrienne Tan, founder of brainmates, an Australian product management company, to bring international product managers together with experts in the field.

The Global Product Management Talk on twitter, since its inception in February 2011, has had a clear focus on addressing the needs of international hi-tech professionals in the product management and product marketing and related expert domains. It is the largest twitter chat with this focus in the world. Weekly up to 50 product people are engaged live during the discussion, with retreets occurring for days and weeks following.

Weekly, Solomon curates the guest speakers, identifies the Twitter talk focus and posts questions to ponder, inviting participation via social media. The speaker is invited to join a Skype conference call during the event to discuss twitter comments, although active participation is taking place digitally within the twitter stream. After the event, the transcript is made available and participants are encouraged to expand upon their statements and insights by blogging to continue the conversation. All of the content from the event is packaged into an ebook to further extend the value and reach of the subject matter.

About ProdMgmtTalk:
The Global Product Management Talk brings international product managers together with experts in the field weekly in a twitter chat format on Mondays, 4:00 - 5:00 PM PT Co-hosted by Cindy F. Solomon and Adrienne Tan, who interview a Product Management evangelist that leads the discussion about a particular topic. The Product Management expert tweets answers to pre-posted questions during the hour, while everyone chimes in on the tweet stream. After the event, the transcript is made available and participants are encouraged to expand upon their statements and insights by blogging to continue the conversation.