Blackblot Official Course Certificate of Completion

As a product management professional you will need to develop both domain and functional expertise.  Domain expertise is one's knowledge in the technical and business aspects of the product, including the technology, industry and market.  Functional expertise is one's ability in executing techniques, processes and tasks that, in the case of product management, aim to create winning products.

Virtually no one teaches domain expertise as that comes by working in the particular industry and gaining work experience, but functional expertise is taught.  Companies typically hire people who have relevant domain expertise and then train these employees so they develop functional expertise.

This is why employers recognize the value of training and view it as a way to improve employee performance.  Training is a very effective means to acquire the accumulated experience of others and product management training helps to establish a baseline for attaining functional expertise.

Each Blackblot course attendee receives an official course certificate of completion (SPMP, SPMM) in printed and digital forms.  After all, you never know when you might need to prove you have undergone product management training.