For many technology companies, bringing successful products to life and managing them throughout the product lifecycle and into retirement is equivalent in complexity to a lunar landing mission. Many companies falter in the process and, as a result, their products fail.

Through more than 40 years’ collective professional experience, Pivotal Product Management has identified lack of product management skills and processes as a root cause in product failure. Overworked product management teams often lack good training, a set of professional skills benchmarks, and a consistent work process to help them lead their products and companies to success in the marketplace.

Pivotal PM believes that the product management role is pivotal to a successful product and, ultimately, a successful organization. We strive to help companies become great at figuring out the market opportunity and developing products and services that win, and we help individual product managers to personally succeed throughout their careers, whether they’re new to product management, a seasoned professional who needs some mid-career acceleration, or a team leader whose goal is to make the entire product management function more effective within the organization.

About Product Management/Product Marketing Training
Pivotal Product Management offers three types of professional development courses:

Instructor-Led Courses
Pivotal Product Management’s Instructor-Led training sessions are taught by currently practicing product managers. These in-person workshops help students learn how to get successful products to market faster using processes that help product managers to choose, define, and launch products effectively. Class sizes are small by design, and the environment highly interactive.

Convenient Distance Learning
Need an introduction or a refresher on a specific product management skill? Need to incorporate learning into your hectic daily schedule? Our Distance Learning courses, available both live and online 24/7, let you learn in your own time. Practical, convenient, fun and effective, our Distance Learning courses cover topics similar to our Instructor-Led courses but let you complete the training on your own time and schedule. Each Distance Learning course session is designed to be completed in an hour or less, giving you the advantage of expert training designed especially for a busy product manager.

Custom On-site Training and Consulting
Bringing the award-winning Pivotal Product Management curriculum to a single organization, our custom On-site Training and product management process consulting offers the content that is most applicable to your company, while eliminating T&E expense. Call (866) 647-5397 and mention WTIA for special pricing on on-site training services.

About Pivotal Product Management
Pivotal Product Management (www.pivotalpm.com) helps companies in all industries bring products to market more profitably. Through Pivotal PM’s award-winning, experience-based training and consulting services, companies can acquire and apply best practices in real-world product management for improved product success rates.

Founders Mara Krieps and Linda Merrick are recognized leaders in the burgeoning Northwest technology industry. TechFlash, the popular online feature of the Puget Sound Business Journal, acknowledged the two in its inaugural list of the Top 100 Women in Seattle Tech. They are the 2006 and 2007 recipients of the Excellence in Product Management Education Award conferred by the Association of International Product Marketing & Product Management (AIPMM). As practicing product managers, they continue to build upon their 40+ years’ combined experience, working on client projects in a variety of industries.

Some of the local companies who have benefited from Pivotal PM programs include: Amazon, AT&T, Captaris, Cenorin, Cobalt Group, Coinstar, DatStat, Data I/O, Drugstore.com, Envision Telephony, Getty Images, GiftCertifcates.com, IDX (GE Medical), Microsoft, Pacific Edge (Serena), PAR3 (Varolii), Premera Blue Cross, Russell Investment Group, T-Mobile, Tideworks Technologies, Virtuoso, Whitepages.com, Who’s Calling, and Zango.

For more information about Pivotal Product Management, go to www.pivotalpm.com.

Upcoming Courses from Pivotal Product Management
January 14, 2010 - Agile Product Management Distance Learning – 3 Part Series
February 4, 2010 - AIPMM Certification – Distance Learning Series
February 16, 2010 - Product Management Intensive Training
February 24, 2010 - Business Case Secrets – Distance Learning Series