e News and Resources from Pivotal Product Management                    August 2008

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Three Ways To Make Your Job Easier


It’s August holiday time for many of us, so this is a good time to settle down in a comfortable chair and think about how to make your job as a product manager easier – both now and when it’s “back to work” time in September.  Here are three time-proven ways to lighten your load…

Events Software 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.

Value-Centered Product Requirements Workshop: Oct 7
This highly interactive course provides a step-by-step process for creating user centered Market and Product Requirements Documents (MRDS, PRDs).

ToolsPivotalPM's Best Tips to Make Your Job Easier. (Take the 30-second Hot Button survey and get your copy!)

Our complimentary library of tools & templates

The PM Coach Is In - our July 31 webinar offers quick tips for a number of common challenges.

Request the AIPMM Certification Glossary & Study Guide if you plan to take the exam this fall.

Special Offer30-second survey: What's your best PM effectiveness tip?

Take just half a minute to respond, and you'll receive a complimentary copy of our Best Tips to Make Your Job Easier! We'll report the survey results in the next newsletter.


Our July Hot Button asked to what extent your development team has gone Agile.
See the results

Contact us to suggest a future Hot Button topic!

HaikuCalling 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.

The Longer View
Seven years from now
will anyone remember
the feature that slipped?
                      - Anonymous Sage

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