406: Why you should join a professional organization as a product manager

Global Product Management Talk is pleased to bring you the next
episode of... Product Mastery Now with host Chad McAllister, PhD.
The podcast is all about helping people involved in innovation and
managing products become more successful, grow their careers, and
STANDOUT from their peers. About the Episode:  The Product
Development and Management Association (PDMA) has been curating the
body of knowledge for product managers, leaders, and innovators and
helping them improve since 1976—the longest-running product
management professional group. Most of us haven’t known about
product management for more than 10 or 20 years, yet PDMA has been
improving the discipline of product management for nearly five
decades. What value does it provide? Is it staying up with
current practice? Is it worth looking into? To help answer these
questions, Susan Penta joins us. She is the current Vice Chair of
PDMA and serves on PDMA’s group responsible for certification and
the group that helps local PDMA chapters across the world. She is
the co-founder and managing partner at MIDIOR, which has been
providing professional services for 25 years to product
organizations in a number of areas from product insights, product
development and management, and technology platforms. It’s worth
noting that PDMA is a volunteer-led organization and, like Susan,
most of the people involved in its leadership have fulltime jobs in
product roles yet find time to contribute to the professional
association. On and off, I’ve been one of those contributors as
well because I have found PDMA very helpful in my career
development. Attend the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference in
Orlando, FL, November 13-15,
2022: pdma.org/page/conference-central. Use
code PMNPodcast10 for 10% off registration.