Blackblot Recommended Resources

Maintaining and enhancing your professional competence in an ever changing and fast paced world is not easy.  Actually, it is quite hard and time consuming.

Nonetheless, it is your duty to yourself and your company to place your abilities on a regular personal maintenance schedule.

Use the following resources, and any others you may find, to preserve and build your abilities.

Resource Websites

·   MarketingProfs – Marketing concepts and strategies: expert articles and commentaries.

·   PM Boulevard – Online resource for professionals and executives working in program management.

·   Product Management Consortium – Product management focused professional organization in the Northwest, USA.

·   Product Management View – Software product management blog and community.

·   productmarketing.com – Pragmatic Marketing Inc. sponsored professional articles.

·   Israel Product Management Association – Non-profit organization dedicated to PM career development.

Product Management Newsletters

·   280 Group – Newsletter about Silicon Valley companies and trends in high-tech marketing.

·   MarketCapture – Newsletter covering strategic and tactical marketing issues faced by high-tech executives.

·   Mironov Consulting – Monthly newsletter focusing on a particular issue in product planning, strategy, or the start-up cycle.

·   Pragmatic Marketing – Product marketing and management newsletters in paper magazine and electronic format.

·   Product Management Tip of the Month – Monthly newsletter from ZigZag Marketing.

·   Sequent Learning Networks – Product management and product development email newsletter.

·   Silicon Valley Product Group – Newsletter by Martin Cagan, a noted Silicon Valley based product executive.

Product Planning Software

·   Accept Software – Makers of Accept 360°.

·   Borland – Makers of CaliberRM.

·   IBM–Rational – Makers of RequisitePro.

·   Jama Software – Makers of Contour.

·   MKS – Makers of MKS Integrity for Requirements Management.

·   Nihito Technologies – Makers of Product Pathfinder.

·   Orasi – Makers of IdeaScope.

·   Orcanos – Makers of Qpack.

·   Rally – Makers of Rally Agile Product Manager.

·   Requirements Management – Makers of ReqDB.

·   Ryma Technologies – Makers of FeaturePlan.

·   Telelogic – Makers of DOORS and FocalPoint.

·   Three SL - Makers of Cradle.

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Product Management Training Companies

·   280 Group – Based in the USA.

·   Blackblot – Based in Israel.

·   brainmates – Based in Australia.

·   Chartered Institute of Marketing – Based in the UK.

·   Coherence – Based in the UK.

·   Gearshift Group – Based in Finland.

·   Innovation Process Management – Based in the UK.

·   Marcus Evans PT – Based in the UK.

·   Pivotal PM – Based in the USA.

·   Pragmatic Marketing – Based in the USA.

·   Product Innovator – Based in Ireland.

·   Product Management Associates – Based in Australia.

·   Select Strategies – Based in Ireland.

·   Sequent Learning – Based in the USA.

·   Silicon Valley Product Group – Based in the USA.

·   Sinfic – Based in Portugal.

·   Tarigo – Based in the UK.

·   TechnoBrands – Based in Canada.

·   ZigZag Marketing – Based in the USA.

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Academic Product Management Programs

·   University of California, Berkeley – Based in the USA.

·   University of Wisconsin, Madison – Based in the USA.

Product Management Certifications

·   Certified Product Manager (CPM)

·   Certified Product Marketing Manager (CPMM)

·   New Product Development Professional (NPDP)

·   Pragmatic Marketing Certified (PMC)

·   Blackblot Product Management Professional (BPMP)

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