Gathering the right requirements as a product manager. New techniques, tools or channels for finding the right requirements.

Product management in general for all forms of software products. These can include but are not limited to:

• software-intensive systems

• information technology

• software as a service

• cloud computing

• APIs

Product portfolio management and life-cycle management: how to foster continuous innovation and new product initiatives?

Strategic Management and innovation in software product management.

Product planning: improving product vision, strategy, roadmapping, and release definition.

Business aspects: business case development, business planning, and marketing.

Product management environments: software ecosystem collaboration, large-scale organizations, cross-company partnerships, and globalization.

Rapid organization and complexity growth: how to ensure that the intended software product qualities are balanced with new innovations - both technical and business development. (see recent zenefits scandal)

Product management performance: measurement, development, and improvement of product management processes, practices, skills, and competence.

Tools for product management: innovative SPM tooling, tool evaluation, tools in industry.

The interplay of SPM with related disciplines such as software architecture, quality assurance and user interface design.