NISO Webinar, Cost Effective Product and Project Management

In a time of economic recovery, there is no bottomless well of resources. Managers must look closely at the budgetary requirements for delivering cost-effective projects and products. What is the best way to build your case as it goes before the decision-makers? If you’re working under the pressures of agile development, how can you plan for changes and budget appropriately? How can product and project managers get the resources they need when every expenditure is under scrutiny? How can you prepare for the unexpected? This roundtable discussion featured experienced product and project managers, sharing the useful tips and practices they’ve learned during their own careers. Confirmed participants in this Roundtable include Maureen Adamson, Principal, Maureen Adamson & Associates; Judson Dunham, Senior Director, Product Management, Elsevier; Paul Shannon, Head of Technology, eLife; and Donna Shaw, Director of Product Management, EBSCO.

Event

74 Videos

NISO Webinar

Helping people gain a greater understanding of the information community — our issues and concerns, challenges and opportunities — is core to NISO's mission. Our events are a key element of this, with our popular webinar program at their heart. And, following the NISO/NFAIS merger earlier this year, all NISO members can now attend all 14 webinars in 2020 completely free of charge! This includes an unlimited number of places and full access to a recording of each webinar for anyone who is unable to attend the event itself.

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Donna Shaw

Director of Product Management, EBSCO

Donna Shaw is a seasoned product leader with a demonstrated history of bringing products to market from their initial vision all the way to their production release. As a product manager, Donna’s job is to develop solutions that solve problems for particular personas. At EBSCO, she focuses on 3rd party products, systems and services that integrate with EBSCO Discovery Service, as well as solutions that support faculty leveraging library resources for their course curriculum. Prior to EBSCO, Donna held product management positions at IBM, Microsoft, various smaller companies and startups.

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Judson Dunham

Senior Director, Product Management, Elsevier

As Sr. Director of Product Management, Jud leads a team of product managers responsible for developing and maintaining ScienceDirect, Elsevier’s flagship full text search and discovery platform. He has been in product management at Elsevier for over 15 years, working in and around STM discovery and workflow products including ScienceDirect, Scopus and Mendeley. During that time he has led several new product development initiatives including efforts to integrate new content and data into journal articles and books, aggregate and summarize information from journals and books to improve discoverability and utility, and improve discovery through search, recommendation, semantic linking.

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9 Videos

Maureen Adamson

Principal, Adamson & Associates

Maureen Adamson is an information industry consultant offering business planning grounded in market research and market insights, optimizing knowledge of appropriate enabling technologies to deliver on business and organizational goals. Projects often include qualitative and quantitative market research and analysis of market needs, trends, and value propositions. Assignments can also include product / service development. Her approach to business planning and project management focuses on the importance of understanding goals and context, clear objectives and communications. This includes bringing marketing and technical knowledge into the planning process to ensure strategic goals are pre-eminent in development.

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2 Videos

Paul Shannon

Chief Technology Officer, eLife

Paul Shannon is Head of Technology at eLife, a unique collaboration between the funders and practitioners of research to improve the way important research is selected, presented, and shared. He’s responsible for the technology strategy at eLife ensuring the team are committed to openness in the products they produce to encourage broad change across the research communication landscape. He leads the community efforts around eLife’s open source products (Libero, Lens, ScienceBeam) and contributes to the Coko Community (xPub) through leadership and facilitation. He’s a regular conference speaker and was previously VP Technology for innovative digital music platform 7digital, where he grew the team and scaled the API platform to support the vastly changing music technology industry.