Stanford University - Careers in Media Technology 

1. Introduction

2. Course Overview

3. How will you plug-in?

4. Jay's Story: Gaining job experience and networking

5. Market Size

6. Roles in Technology Companies

7. Discussion Forum Networking and Assignments

8. Overview of the Media Technology Industry

9. Summary

1. Overview

2. Who's the Boss

3. User Stories

4. Product Teams

5. Session Overview

6. Hart Schafer

7. Hart Shafer's Career Path

8. What is a Product Manager? What is a Product Owner?

9. The Beginning of a Project

10. Customer Discovery and 3 types of essential thinking

11. Product Gurus, Mini CEOs and Supporting your Team as a PM

12. Shipping the product, Tracking Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

13. Why a 2 year old has great Product Manager instincts

14. Product Manager Wrap-up

1. Overview

2. Waterfall development and a short introduction to agile development

3. The Scrum Process Artifacts Rituals and Roles

4. Meetings: Sprint meetings, standups, planning and retrospectives

5. Does scrum introduce too many meetings

6. The Scrum Team

7. Case Study: iZotope RX4

8. iZotope RX 4 - Product Video

9. The ideation of iZotope RX 4 and the benefits of an iterative development cycle

10. How to be agile but predictable

11. Product line planning release plans and sprint plans

12. How agile can help teams release in the face of great uncertainty

13. What is a scrum master

14. What tools does a scrum master use in their day to day work

15. Is being a musician required to be in the music tech industry

16. Musician to program management: Peter Green's career path

17. What do program managers look for when hiring

18. Closing remarks: The creative and knowledge worker economy

19. Closing remarks: Vacuum cleaner sales and a brief career retrospective

20. Wrap-up

1. Overview

2. User story and Design

3. How does a product designer fit into the organization

4. What are the deliverables of a product design to their product teams

5. Smule

6. Smule

Sing! Karaoke App

7. The Creation of Smule's Sing app 1

8. How do you know when the product is right

9. Designers their egos and ensuring that your work is on the mark

10. How do you know when you are done with a design

11. iZotope RX 4 Overview

12. Why refresh a user interface, What's the Value

13. What tools does a Product Designer use

14. Communicating and presenting design options

15. How do I break into the industry

16. Should a designer have a portfolio

17. Career Advice and a product designer's portfolio

18. Wrap-up

1. Overview

2. Intro to Craig Hanson

3. Craig's Career Path

4. Academic versus commercial projects

5. Intro to Dave Tremblay

6. Dave Tremblay's career path

7. New software engineering orientation

8. Entry level software engineers

9. Features, user stories, tasks and sprints

10. Collaboration in software engineering

11. Daily development for SW engineers

12. How do you demonstrate 1-3 years of job experience?

13. Software engineering roles (including internships!)

14. The value of networking

15. Session wrapup