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In The Machine is the official blog of the Inventor Product Management Team. It is a way for us to share Inventor news, interesting information about successful Inventor customers and partners as well as tips and tricks. From time to time we’ll also use the blog to solicit feedback from users via surveys. This blog is hosted by Garin Gardiner our Technical Marketing Manager.
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AU Recap- Finally!
December 22, 2005, 11:34 AMAll,
Well I finally got my AU pictures together and posted. Not sure they were worth the wait since most of them are pictures of Autodesk employees.... At least I remembered my camera this year- but I'm no photo journalist. I'm usually too busy talking.
This was my 3rd AU and the best yet. We had over 5,000 attendees ( up from 3,000ish) and easily twice as many Inventor users as in previous years. We also sent a ton of people from the division and we all had little green notebooks so we could easily capture our conversations with customers. Each day we regrouped to share what we learned. It was great for so many people from all parts of the organization to talk directly with our customers. Those of us in product management get to do it all the time but we are lucky that way.
We started the show early Monday morning with some small group meetings we called listening sessions. We basically asked customers to tell us how we were to do business with and what we did well and what we should improve. A lot of the discussion revolved around installation and deployment, migration, licensing and our ongoing emphasis on quality and stability. It was a great meeting and really validated that we are working on the right things.
The rest of the week is a blur- staying up late talking with customers and then getting up early for more meetings! It's the same every year but I seem to forget. Unfortunately, we couldn't talk much about the next releases of our products (thanks to accounting rules and our attorneys) but we were able to gather a lot of data from the users there and to learn about what they are doing with the software. The classes were great (so I am told) though I was in too many meetings to go to any of them!!
Next year we are at the Venetian in Las Vegas, and we'll start one day later so hopefully we don't have to travel on the Sunday after Thanksgiving - not my favorite thing to do either.
-Amy
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