A few months before my wedding, I committed to a challenge I probably shouldn't have taken on myself: creating hundreds of custom-designed units for the event using a new 3D printer. The catch: I had no idea what I was doing. With the clock ticking and zero 3d modelling experience, my first design was wildly optimistic and deeply flawed - a bulky, resource hungry unit that took nearly two hours and 45 grams of plastic to print. Worse yet, attempts to scale up by printing in batches were failing miserably. The wedding date was an immovable deadline and what began as a personal project quickly changed into a high stakes race to optimize. This is not (only) a story about 3D printing. It's a case study in launching a product under extreme constraints by using the daily skills of a product manager: managing scope and tradeoffs, mastering new technical domains, and focusing on iterative value delivery to nail a high-stakes deadline - all while the key stakeholder is your future wife.
Room: Main hall
Tue, Oct 28th, 14:40 - 14:45