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Product Development Events
Crafted is committed to bringing the tech community together, both in Denver, Colorado through local events and nationally through virtual meetups. From exclusive executive dinners to educational webinars, we love to meet other product development professionals and share our expertise. See below for upcoming events and be sure to check back as this page is updated on a frequent basis. We look forward to collaborating with you!
Food Truck Feedback: Taste & Test with Crafted & Truckster
Join Crafted and Truckster for some free food and participate in live user validation. While you chow down from one of our favorite food trucks, we will conduct and showcase the basics of user validation testing and lean experimentation. This event is part of Denver Startup Week 2024.
Get off the SaaS Rollercoaster: How to Stop Burning Cash, Careers, and Companies
Is your SaaS company caught in a vicious cycle of high highs and low lows? You’re not alone! The past year of economic fluctuations and uncertainty put many companies on a rollercoaster. But there’s hope!
In this talk, join product development experts from Crafted as we analyze the great shift from abundance to scarcity in SaaS. We provide a new framework to create successful software products that resonate with users and boards. Using this framework, we analyze case studies to show how value-oriented decisions supercharge your company’s products while allowing you to “default alive” and get off the rollercoaster. This event is part of Denver Startup Week 2024.
Embracing Vulnerability and Transparency
In the high-speed world of entrepreneurship, authentic leadership is your secret weapon. Join Bridge Entrepreneurs Network Advisors and top Colorado entrepreneurs (including Crafted’s own Adam Oliver) as they delve into how authenticity, vulnerability, and transparency can transform your leadership style.
Discover how these qualities can build trust, inspire your team, and create a thriving work culture. Don't miss this chance to elevate your leadership game! This event is part of Denver Startup Week 2024.
Product in Practice
The "Product in Practice" session at Denver Startup Week is perfect for entry to mid-level product managers seeking hands-on insights and actionable advice. Engage with seasoned PMs (including Crafted’s Head of Product Laura Poatsy) who share their experiences and strategies for tackling everyday challenges in product management.
Whether you're dealing with roadmap development, stakeholder management, or user experience optimization, this session provides valuable tools and techniques to enhance your skills and succeed in your role. Ideal for those looking to bridge the gap between theory and practice in product management. This event is part of Denver Startup Week 2024.
Location: TBD
[Webinar] The AI Dilemma: Build or Buy? Chart Your SMB's 2025 Tech Strategy
SMBs are uniquely positioned to move quickly to add AI to their growth and value prop strategies. But deciding whether to build or buy and customize a tool to quickly drive new revenue can be an overwhelming choice.
Join Kyle Brill, Head of Engineering at Crafted, and Angela Green Urbaczewski, AI Implementation Strategist with RevOppAI, as we weigh building from scratch versus customizing off-the-shelf solutions like chat, apps, and predictive models to get your AI value-add ideas in the hands of customers faster.
Accelerating Product Value
Learn how to apply Kanban practices that enhance the efficiency, quality, and predictability of product delivery. By understanding and applying core principles— such as work visualization, work-in-progress limits, workflow management, and pull systems— you will be equipped to streamline the product process from ideation to delivery.
This not only accelerates time to market by identifying and eliminating bottlenecks and waste, but also ensures a predictable delivery schedule and faster customer feedback.
Attending this course will teach you how to achieve operational efficiency with a visible, pull-based system, focusing efforts on the highest-priority work that truly adds customer value. Embracing flow will enable you to meet customer needs and deliver with high team morale and productivity in mind.
After the course, learners will be able to:
Respond to changing customer needs
Use flow metrics to forecast delivery dates
Create faster customer feedback loops
Slice work to reduce batch size
Leverage just-in-time prioritization
Identify and quantify product delivery risk
What’s Included?
2-days of highly engaging, activity based training with Colleen Johnson and Prateek Singh
Exam token to take the Product Value Acceleration certification by ProKanban.org
Digital copy of all course materials
Complimentary breakfast and lunch both days and a networking happy hour on Wednesday
Hosted by ProKanban.org and Crafted
Colorado Product + Crafted Happy Hour
Join Colorado Product and Crafted for a night of networking and conversation at Blanchard Family Wines in Downtown Denver, located in the Dairy Block.
Meet fellow product managers and leaders, bond over shared challenges, and share your own successes and lessons learned. Discuss the latest trends and best practices in product management, and exchange ideas with like-minded professionals.
[Webinar] Death of the Product Roadmap
In today's fast-paced market, the traditional product roadmap is becoming increasingly obsolete. Static plans can't keep up with the dynamic nature of customer needs, the speed of technological advancements, or constantly shifting economic pressures.
Join experts from Crafted and ProKanban.org as they explore how to start the shift from rigid roadmaps to adaptive, customer-focused strategies that prioritize feedback, innovation, and responsiveness. We'll dive into real-world examples of companies that have successfully killed their roadmaps, replacing them with flexible, value-driven approaches that manage risk while better aligning to customer needs. Discover how letting go of the old can lead to building products that truly resonate with your audience—faster and more effectively.