I have just returned from the Product Management conference provided by the Association for International Product Marketing and Management. The 2006 west coast conference, called the PMEC, or Product Management Educational Conference, was held in Indian Wells, California (near Palm Springs) for two days on April 20 and 21, with an optional day of pre-conference workshops.

The conference theme was “The Way of the Product Manager” and the conference was organized around four tracks: Plan, Build, Launch, and Sustain. It was as inspirational, forward-looking, all-encompassing, and fluid as the profession of Product Management itself.

I was nominated for the 2006 Product Management Excellence Award for Thought Leadership. The award went to Linda Gorchels, author of The Product Manager’s Handbook, and I am honored and humbled to have found myself in such company through my work on this newsletter.

Read on for more information about what it was like to be at the conference and for a list of great resources for Product Managers.