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Upcoming events at PDMA: innovation and product development
February 25, 2009 — Abe CrystalPDMA Carolinas is a community for North and South Carolina professionals and organizations that have a stake in the broad areas of product and service innovation, development, and management, from the very front end of innovation to manufacturing.
PDMA has kindly extended a membership discount to TriUPAians–just register with discount code ‘TriUPAVIP’.
Upcoming events
March 3, 2009, Charlotte, North Carolina
Discovering Your Next Great Innovation: How Outcome-Driven Innovation (ODI) is driving organic growth at Ingersoll-Rand
With The Innovator’s Dilemma and The Innovator’s Solution, Clayton Christensen grounded the nation’s innovation initiatives around the key question, “What job does this product or service actually do?” Strategyn has taken this philosophy and created a repeatable process that a company can actually execute.
Join Rick Norman of Strategyn and Jeff Hynds of Ingersoll Rand as they lead an interactive discussion of how Outcome-Driven Innovation® has actually been put into practice at IR.
Discounts for early registration are available until February 25th.
March 24, 2009, Greenville, South Carolina
PDMA at InnoVenture SouthEast 2009 Conference
Robin Karol, Executive Director, PDMA, to speak during lunch keynote (conference attendees only)
Afternoon session on Collaborative Product Development: Best Practices, Pitfalls, and Tools (free session, open to the public)
This session will feature a panel of product research and development experts from leading manufacturing and education institutions in South Carolina including Milliken, Michelin, Clemson, and Selah Technologies.
March 26, 2009, RTP, North Carolina
The Future is Now: iRobot’s Journey of Commercializing Autonomous Solutions
Founded in 1990 as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, iRobot (Nasdaq: IRBT) is at the forefront of the growing robot industry, delivering home and government robots that make a difference in people’s lives.
Join Edison Hudson, Director Strategic Alliances, iRobot, and Rick Vosburgh, Executive Director, iRobot, for an informative presentation of iRobot’s journey – from its initial struggles to the overwhelming success of Roomba, PackBot and other robots thanks to innovation, persistence, and flexibility.
Network with our speakers, and with your peers from the PDMA and our event partners ASME and TriUPA.
Discounts for early registration are available until March 1st.
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Job: Expert JavaScript Developer (Teradata Corporation)
February 17, 2009 — Abe CrystalTeradata is looking for an expert JavaScript developer to join their Raleigh office. Teradata develops business applications inlcuding Customer Relationship Management and Demand Chain Management.
The developer is expected to have deep knowledge of Javascript and Ajax frameworks. Expert knowledge of available JavaScript libraries and frameworks is required.
Ability to work in an Agile Software Development Model is a plus. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously is desired.
Contact: alex.chapman@teradata.com with your resume.
Last chance to register for “Adaptive Path’s Design Research” workshop
February 17, 2009 — Abe CrystalDeadline to register
TriUPA‘s upcoming workshop on design research methods (“Adaptive Path’s Approach to Design Research” — http://triupa.org/DesignResearch), will be held on Friday, February 20th at CED from 9am – 5:00pm (lunch is included in the cost of the workshop).
» You must register online by 5:00pm Wed 2/18/09 to attend the workshop.
Don’t let money be an object to your attending the workshop! Contact Abe Crystal if you can’t afford the workshop fee, particularly if you’re between jobs or you can’t get expense approval from your employer.
About the workshop
This workshop is for intermediate to advanced UX professionals working to develop a more complete understanding of their customers. Todd (from Adaptive Path) will guide attendees beyond usability tests and focus groups to gain a deeper and more complete picture of their customers’ lives. This workshop covers everything from basic models of human behavior to interviewing and data analysis to strategies for making research work effective in your organization.
The majority of discussions about user research focus on the details of various methodologies such as interviews, lab studies, surveys, etc. But the bulk of the hard work and value in research comes from what happens before and after data collection. This day is structured to provide you with a framework for conducting effective user research with a focus on research planning and analysis. Effective research is about generating ideas as much as it is about evaluating design concepts; activities and concepts will focus on developing a deep understanding of your customers through qualitative and contextual research. Nearly every section involves hands-on research activities to help you learn to put the concepts we discuss into practice.
And here’s a nice review of a design research workshop Todd presented in Minneapolis, by TriUPA member Geoff Mackey.
Job: Associate Account Executive at HFI
February 6, 2009 — Jackson FoxAssociate Account Executive at Human Factors International
You will work with the Director of Business Development to hone your skills involving:
- Relationship selling at the highest level
- Develop and execute account plans based on client needs and consultative selling techniques
- Provide detailed follow-up to ensure customer satisfaction
- Prepare briefing for pre-qualification and scoping calls
- Gather industry insight/background for scoping calls with clients
- Prospect/Research new leads/existing accounts for more penetration
- Gather and analyze competitive intelligence
Triangle User Experience 