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Blackblot Training Program Benefits

Blackblot's product management training program is a complete and unsurpassed professional offering. The program's key and most fundamental features and benefits are:
  • Presents a more structured approach to product management; resulting in less time spent to arrive at product management decisions.
  • Provides a clearer understanding of the product management process and its principles; resulting in a higher potential to deliver successful products.
  • Delivers a comprehensive set of tools, concepts, models, and procedures; resulting in a more effective execution of product management processes.
  • Presents conventions on "what-to-do" and not "how-to-do"; resulting in more effort spent on performing the appropriate product management activities.
  • Delivers a more comprehensive approach to product management that considers the most relevant contributing factors; resulting in more complete and realistic product management decisions.


The following table summarizes the Blackblot product management training program's features and benefits.

Blackblot Product Management Training Program (Features/Benefits)

Feature

Training Program Benefit
Curriculum  

Based
on PMTK

Teaches "Blackblot Product Manager's Toolkit®" (PMTK); the most extensive and customizable professional template collection.

Comprehensive
Study Program

Designed to provide students with all of the three job necessities: knowledge, skills, and tools.

Factual
and Interesting

Extremely practical and interlaced with various historical technology case studies to promote a deep understanding of topics.

Progressive Skill
Development

Guided by the "Blackblot Skills Radial" which depicts a customized training concept aimed at generating proper skill build-up.

Proven
Concepts

Illustrates notable best practices and processes used by top technology companies to create successful market-driven products and services.

Work
Models

Guided by work models that structure the educational process, and are practical and applicable to the workplace.

Pedagogy  

Consistent Style
of Instruction

Employs a semi-structured instructional method so that training is collaborative and contextual for an enhanced learning environment.

Effective Training
Delivery Mode

Presented in a classroom mode of delivery, recognized as the best format for delivering complex and diverse content to small groups.

Instructive
and Effective

Promotes a captivating and effective learning experience via intensive interaction, supportive data, and classroom activities.

Personal
Interaction

Delivered in a highly interactive mode that allows attendees to participate and provide personal input as much as possible.

Diverse
Learning Modes

Employs a multi-modal approach for delivering professional content which allows attendees to comfortably learn in different ways.

Uniform
Work
Principles

Embodies key principles which are emphasized in every course:

1. Systematically executing product management tasks using professional work templates.

2. Applying a comprehensive product management methodology that is practical and highly productive.

3. Becoming effective at the strategic elements of product management, while managing multiple tactical activities.

Tools  

Concept
Presentations

Provides tools for the dissemination of knowledge and information acquired during training at the workplace.

Content
Retention Tools

Fosters post-training content retention as a learning aid, self assessment and improvement, and for interview preparation.

Seminar
Action Plans

Summarizes concise guidelines that focus on key work related issues, promoting easier implementation of the knowledge learned at work.

PMTK Book Chapters

Integrated with the training are Blackblot's PMTK Book chapters that allow assimilation of information in self-study mode.

Blackblot Product
Manager's
Toolkit®

"Blackblot Product Manager's Toolkit®" templates are consistent in their structure, making them easy to learn and use, and are highly productive as they allow product managers to focus on content (what to write) and not on the method (how to write). Attendees receive free and unlimited updates and upgrades via a lifetime subscription.

Supplements  

Automated
Tools

Presents third-party software applications, which implement the methodology learned, to manage the product planning process.

Career
Support

Provides a cohesive set of training and tools for team management, role descriptions, and hiring; specifically for product management.

Certificate of
Completion

Provides attendees with an official course certificate (printed/digital) that proves to employers the undergoing of professional training.

Organized
Materials

Provides digital course booklets and supporting materials for easy search and filing.

Uniform
Terminology

Depicts clear definitions that establish a common understanding, better internal cooperation, and standardizes corporate processes.

Blackblot Product
Management
Professional™
Certification

Provides study materials for certification tests that allow individuals to professionally validate and differentiate themselves; and enables companies to achieve better consistency in the internal application of product management.