e News and Resources from Pivotal Product
Management May
2008
Four Good Reasons to Get Certified
Which kind of career manager are you? Do you make deliberate career
moves designed to achieve your goals? Or do you "go with the flow,"
moving from one fun challenge to the next?
Whatever your approach, you know the importance of credibility to
advancing faster in your product management career. It's the number one
advantage of becoming a certified product manager. On the road to
career success, your certification proves you're not just along for the
ride. An independent validation of your product management skills gives
you greater credibility and more confidence on the job.
It's just one of four great reasons to get certified. Here they arehttp://media.emm.adhost.com/adhost_5377.
User-Centered Product Requirements Workshop July 16-17 This highly interactive course provides a step-by-step process for creating user centered Market and Product Requirements Documents (MRDS, PRDs).
Product Management Intensive: Sept. 24-25
Learn from award-winning, practicing PMs and immediately apply the seven best practices for greater product success now.
AIPMM Certification Review and Exam: Sept. 26 Become a CPM and show your leadership in your company or the marketplace.
Complimentary Webinar: What's
Certification and Why Do I Need It? (scroll
down to March 17, 2007)
Certification
Study Aids
Harvard
Business Review On Line
(The May issue has several excellent - and complimentary - Product Management articles!)
Certification: What Matters to You?
Take just 30 seconds to respond, and you'll receive a complimentary
copy of the Certification glossary and study guide we developed.
We'll report the survey results in the next newsletter.
Our
April Hot Button asked how you gather customer requirements. Most
respondents used multiple methods, but one was the overwhelming winner.
Find
out
Contact us to suggest a future Hot Button topic!
Calling all frustrated creative writers for PM haiku therapy
Oh, the product management stories you can tell in just 17 syllables!
Submit yours today for a chance at fame in the next Pivot Point newsletter.
LESSON VALIDATED
More layoffs presaged
Last job search not so easy
This time, certify!
More layoffs presaged
Last job search not so easy
This time, certify!
