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 in program management.
- Product Management Consortium – Professional PM 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.
- Pragmatic Marketing – Product marketing and management newsletters in paper magazine and electronic format.
- 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.
- 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.
- TechnoSolutions – Makers of TopTeam.
- Telelogic – Makers of DOORS and FocalPoint.
- Three SL – Makers of Cradle.
Supports Blackblot’s Procedural Requirements Management™ methodology.
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.
- Confianzys – Based in India.
- Gearshift Group – Based in Finland.
- Innovation Process Management – Based in the UK.
- Lûcrum – Based in the USA.
- Marcus Evans PT – Based in the UK.
- NPD Strategy – Based in Mexico.
- Peter Kairies – Based in Germany.
- Pivotal PM – Based in the USA.
- Pragmatic Marketing – Based in the USA.
- Product Focus – Based in the UK.
- Product Innovator – Based in Ireland.
- Select Strategies – Based in Ireland.
- Sequent Learning – Based in the USA.
- Silicon Valley Product Group – Based in the USA.
- Starvision – Based in Israel.
- Tarigo – Based in the UK.
- Tialea – Based in Germany.
- 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)
Recommended Reading
| Book Name | Author | Publication | ISBN | Category |
| Managing Innovation and Change: People, Technology and Strategy | Jon Clark | Sage Publications | 080398944X | Change Management |
| Creating High Performance Software Development Teams | Frank P. Ginac | Prentice Hall | 0130850837 | Organization and Teams |
| Portfolio Management for New Products | Robert G. Cooper, Scott J. Edgett, and Elko J. Kleinschmidt | Perseus | 0201328143 | Portfolio Management |
| Setting the PACE in Product Development: A Guide to Product and Cycle Excellence | Michael E. McGrath | Butterworth-Heinemann | 075069789X | Product Cycle |
| Product Development and Design: Second Edition | Karl T. Ulrich, Steven D. Eppinger | McGraw-Hill | 007229647X | Product Development |
| Expert Product Management: Advanced Techniques, Tips and Strategies for Product Management & Product Marketing | Brian Lawley | Happy About | 1600050794 | Product Management |
| New Products Management: Fifth Edition | C. Merle Crawford | Richard D. Irwin | 0256187789 | Product Management |
| Product Management | Donald R. Lehmann, Russell S. Winer | McGraw-Hill | 0071238328 | Product Management |
| Software Product Management Essentials | Alyssa S. Dver | Meghan Kiffer | 0929652010 | Product Management |
| The Product Manager's Desk Reference | Steven Haines | McGraw-Hill | 0071591346 | Product Management |
| The Product Manager's Handbook | Linda Gorchels | McGraw-Hill | 0658001353 | Product Management |
| The Product Manager’s Toolkit: Methodologies, Processes and Tasks in High-Tech Product Management | Gabriel Steinhardt | Springer-Verlag | 3642045073 | Product Management |
| Business Marketing Strategy: Cases, Concepts, and Applications | Rangan, V. Katuri, Benson P. Shapiro, and Rowland T. Moriarty, Jr. | McGraw-Hill | 025616911X | Product Marketing |
| Defining, Designing, and Launching Market Aimed Products | Dave Biggs | Dogwood Publishing | 0962111880 | Product Marketing |
| A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge: 2000 Edition | Project Management Institute | Project Management Institute Publications | 1880410230 | Project Management |
| Successful Project Management – A Step by Step Approach with Practical Examples (Third Edition) | Milton Rosenau, Jr. | John Wiley & Sons | 0471293040 | Project Management |
| In Search of Stupidity: Over 20 Years of High–Tech Marketing Disasters | Merrill R. Chapman | Apress | 1590591046 | Review and Analysis |
| Microsoft Secrets: How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets and Manages People | Michael A. Cusumano | Free Press | 0684855313 | Review and Analysis |
| The Channel Advantage: Going to Market With Multiple Sales Channels to Reach More Customers, Sell More Products, Make More Profit | Lawrence G. Friedman, Timothy R. Furey | Butterworth-Heinemann | 0750640987 | Sales |
| Product Planning Essentials | Kenneth B. Kahn | Sage Publications | 0761919996 | Strategic Planning |