Product Tonic Unconference 2021
240 people explored 66 topics in 2018,’19 and ’20.
The little learning steps we take start from sensing and extend very much into who we are and who we connect with at the larger systems and beliefs.
Learning from the future starts with asking:
- Are we doing the appropriate things now ?
- What is missing from the things we are doing now ?
- What should be our learning edge ?
Join participants from Southeast Asia (and beyond!) as we deep dive into topics that matter to the Product / Design & Tech communities. This is our 4th unconference held online for the price of a movie ticket!
Don’t miss this chance to engage in conversations with the region! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/product-tonic-unconference-2021-tickets-168684994359?aff=ptunconfshare
Here’s a bonus! Participants from Product Tonic Lab’s Cohort 1 will be joining us to share about what they have learnt thinking together over 5 months, the real meaning of dialogue. They explored different models and theories to inspect the various dimensions of production leadership like Decisions, Trust, Sustainability, Resilience, Mentorship, Ownership, Culture, Doughnut Economy and Self.
Opening space for collective creativity and dialogue, we have engaged the Product Management community in Southeast Asia since 2013 via #ProductBeer and later in 2018–present via #ProductTonic. Here are some highlights from the learning events that has engaged 209 product people exploring 56 topics in product management and teams.
2018 Product Gin & Tonic Retreat/ Bali, Indonesia
- Changing Culture (by setting things on fire)
- Scaling Product Teams
- Build Better Relationships + Make Meaningful Something
- Building Product Community in SEA (and beyond)
2019 Product Tonic Retreat / Yilan,Taiwan
- Government
- Trust
- Building and Growing Product Team
- Giving Back — Kili Bay
- Conflict
- Community
2018 Product Tonic Unconference
- [Keynote] Scaling the Product Manager: Moving from a start-up to a large organisation
- [Keynote] Reducing Waste
- How do product people learn?
- How do you handle product feature prioritization while maintaining happy stakeholders?
- What are the best practices when it comes to testing ideas ?
- Models of integrating UX/PD in varying sized (scale) orgs
- Amazia in Main Tent
- Broader applications of product management
- HMW run design research as a product, where org-wide questions feed into discovery sprints to complement projects + grow customer insight?
- Does your company use a structured company goal-setting system like OKR?
- How might we solve problems and release basic versions of them that scale?
- Checklist of documents every project should have
2019 Product Tonic Unconference
- Matching and creating a coaching program to enable senior PMs to help coach junior PMs to become better product managers
- How might we create/support a regional network/community for supporting our learning?
- Empathy as the foundation for trust to happen
- Proven tips in facilitating successful process workshops
- Market of Skills + Designing Teams for Wicked Problems
- Things succeed and things failed while maintaining a community
- Building a product for a multi-cultural, multi-language, global customer base
- Going from startup to enterprise
- Amazia
- How to create a safe environment, e.g. in a working environment?Temporarily or more long term.
- Can products be built without roadmaps?
- How can we scale product teams to be customer-centric effectively.
- Using the Kano model to help determine product feature prioritization based on research
- How to run research alongside process used by devs (agile sprint cycle)?
- How can we take our learnings into schools and universities? How can we help the next generation adapt, learn fast, and grow?
2020 Product Tonic Unconference
- How is your product team structured? By feature, value, by experience, what else? What do you hate/like about it?
- How might we develop a community program for product leadership in Southeast Asia?
- How can PMs continuously level up and grow? What skills to learn and where to learn? (PM roles are focused more on soft skills rather than hard skills)
- How are you building team culture & connections when everyone is remote?
- How might we measure/communicate ROI for non-commercial products
- How might we have better product planning in a super fast-paced environment
- How the UI/UX decision making process should be? between Product manager & Product designer & other stakeholder
- Open discussion: How might we measure our product leadership?
Product Practice Differences (Based on Region) - How might we lead/influence without authority? (in SEA culture)
- How to know when to stop something (product / process / partnership)
- How can we influence large companies to move to agile squads. Join sessions?
- Open discussion: How do we influence large organizations to move from projects to products?
- How might we keep focus on goals & not get distracted in adapting to the current situation?
- How do we have tougher yet meaningful conversation?
- Has your creativity been impacted considering the limited interactions and environmental triggers? If so, how could we change this?
- How might we have more water cooler type conversations with our colleagues?
- Lean governance: how might we prioritize and manage resources for a portfolio of products
- How do we help PMs / budding PMs learn from each other in a continuous dialogue?
- How might we form cross functional teams in an organisation?
how junior PM should work with senior Manger from other division - Open discussion: When leveraging AI in your products, what questions do you ask youseleves/team to ensure the product is ethical?
- How to create an environment to guide and coach PO within the organization?
- How we apply portfolio management in agile organizations
- How might we better tackle the painful path to production in enterprise organizations
- How to adjust budget of value streams dynamically
- How might we encourage sustained development for our overseas teams through remote culture?
- Any advice about how to educate business side executive/C level about PM?
- Open discussion: what are some of the localisation frameworks used in SEA region?
- Amazia!
2021 Product Tonic Lab Cohort 1
- Anatomy of a Great Decision
- How might we enable product leaders to make fast and accurate decisions without overstepping boundaries?
- How might we build trust within product teams and the process?
- How might we build more sustainable products?
- How might we enable product leaders to build capable and resilient teams?
- How might we learn to mentor and mentor well? (as mentees and mentors)
- How might we build a sense of ownership for our business and technical members to create success together?
- How might we transform a Business Led (Top-Down) approach to prod dev to being “Product led”?
- How might we use Product Skillset in pushing economies into the green circle of the doughnut economy?
- Self in Product Leadership
