On Wednesday, I’ll be leading a session at The Architect Factory event in Cambridge, MA. My topic is Persuading Product/Project Managers and is in the Architecture Leadership track.

I’ll be covering:

  • What is a Product Manager?
  • How Product Managers think
  • How technical should Product Managers be?
  • What motivates Product Managers
  • How Architects and Product Managers work together
  • How to describe technical concepts to non-technical managers
  • How to communicate estimates
  • How to communicate design choices
  • How to describe implementation details like unit testing, refactoring, and infrastructure

More than a third of the time will be devoted to discussion.