iSPIRT Roundtable: Effective Product Mgmt: Applications and Benefits for Technology Startups and SMB

As Services companies make move into creating products and as the number of product Startups mushrooming increases, now more than ever there is a need for these companies to understand the basic building blocks of Product Management. Having a rock solid Product Management organization ensure right product direction, alignment across various organizations enabling companies to foster innovation and capitalize on rapidly changing market opportunities.

The goal of this Roundtable is to tackle real challenges faced by Product Management professionals in their everyday life and companies that are pivoting from traditional Services domain into Product domain and mindset. Some of the topics to be covered in the Roundtable include:

• Structuring  Product Management organization and Product Manager that suites your business and organizational needs

• Creating a well balanced product roadmap that takes into consideration customer needs, competitive pressures and technical debt

• Driving alignment between Sales, Marketing, Engineering and Support for delivering products with high revenue impact and high usage

• And other relevant topics…

iSPIRT is organizing this round table for software product startups on Effective Product Management in a Startup and SMB context. These roundtables at Bangalore and Delhi are interactive sessions where we want to engage with product startups that have demonstrated customer traction and discuss practical ways to improve product management and deliver strategic value to your business. These sessions are conducted by experienced product managers and are focused on giving practical, actionable mentorship to these startups on aspects of product management and delivery.

The Pune RoundTable is led by Shrirang Bapat, VP at Pubmatic. The Curator for the RoundTable is Sridhar Ranganathan, former VP, InMobi & Aditya Bhelande, Founder, Yukta, volunteering for the RoundTable.

You can apply for the round table by clicking here. Applications are due by August 18th. This workshop is FREE and there are no charges

Profile:

Shrirang Bapat is the VP of Engineering at PubMatic focused on scaling engineering processes for rapid product development and enhancing customer service.

Prior to PubMatic, Shrirang had been the global head of R&D and head of product operations for India for Amdocs. Under his leadership, Shrirang’s Amdocs team grew to more than five times its original size and became one of the top engineering teams in the company. Shrirang was a member of the Amdocs Innovation Board and the executive sponsor of the Innovation Program at Amdocs India and Amdocs Open Innovation Program working with technical and business universities around the world.

Shrirang also worked for Tata Consultancy Services for many years in different roles including as a founder and lead for their Mobile Computing and product R&D services. He has over 20 years of experience in software product development, professional services, general management, R&D operations, presales and technology partnerships. His global experience includes work in Israel, the UK, the US and India.