Nominees Announced for Excellence in Product Management Awards

Excellence abounds in this lineup of tools, leaders and educators in product management.

Los Angeles, CA, (PRWEB) April 10, 2006 -- The Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM), the resource for all things product management, today announced the nominees for the Excellence in Product Management Awards.

The Excellence in Product Management Awards categories recognize achievement and merit in the following areas: Product Management Education/Training, Individual Thought Leader, Best Product Management Organization, and Excellence in Product Management Tools.

The Excellence in Product Management Awards Dinner will be held at the annual Product Management Educational Conference (PMEC) in Indian Wells, California, on Thursday, April 20, 2006.

The nominees are as follows:

Product Management Education/Training
This award recognizes the contribution and excellence of an outstanding individual, university program or training company. The focus is on how the training was introduced to the customer, and how it developed and promoted the discipline of product management. Nominees must actively teach the product management discipline to one or more industries.

Nominees
» Alyssa Dver, Software Product Management Essentials
» Mara Krieps, Product Management Consortium & Pivotal Product Management
» Linda Merrick, Pivotal Product Management
» Withdrawn
» Steven Haines, Sequent Learning Networks

Excellence as a Thought Leader
This award recognizes an individual who is making or made sustained and substantial lifetime contributions to the growth and development of the product management discipline. Designed to honor the individual who by leadership and creative insight, has positively advanced the product management discipline.

Nominees
» Linda Gorchels, University of Wisconsin
» Steven Haines, Sequent Learning Networks
» Joachim Karlsson, Telelogic AB
» Brian Lawley, 280 Group
» Jaques Murphy, Product Management Challenges
» Matt Schwab, Experian-Scorex Americas

Excellence in Product Management Organization
This award recognizes an organizational entity that has made significant commitment to their product managers, actively supports the discipline of product management, and who is an active supporter of industry educational programs and activities which foster and promote excellence in product management. Recognizes a company that has done an outstanding job of implementing and supporting the product management discipline within the organization.

Nominees
» Clorox
» Experian
» Experian-Scorex Americas
» Intuit
» Resperonics
» Symantec

Excellence in Product Management Tools
This award recognizes the innovative and practical tool designed for commercial use to support the product management discipline within an organization.

Nominees
» Accept 360, Accept Software
» Feature Plan, Ryma Technology Solutions
» Focal Point, Telelogic AB
» IdeaScope, Orasi
» Matrix10, MatrixOne
» Product Management Toolkit, 280 Group

The Product Management Educational Conference 2006, entitled The Way of the Product Manager, will be held Wednesday April 19, 2006 to Friday April 21, 2006. PMEC 2006 will provide learning and networking opportunities for product managers representing pharmaceutical, software, medical devices, travel & tourism, food services, financial services, and consumer goods.

The PMEC 2006 boasts a lineup of heavy hitting working product managers and educators in the field. Steven Haines of Sequent Learning Networks, Brian Lawley of 280 Group, David Gould of University of Phoenix and John Mansour of ZigZag Marketing are industry-leading product management instructors. Leading off the list of heavy hitting working product managers in the field are Matt Pope, Group Product Manager for Groove at Microsoft and George Allen, Director of Product Management for Fluke Technologies. And on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 don't miss the well-known "Help, I'm a Product Manager!" pre-conference workshop, led by the dynamic duo of Mara Krieps and Linda Merrick. Krieps and Merrick bring their expertise as trainers in the field, teaching at the University of Washington Software Product Management Certificate Program as well as Pivotal Product Management, AND their experience as working product managers, to deliver a powerful and practical session.

PMEC 2006 is sponsored by the Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM), the resource for all things product management. The AIPMM is the only worldwide professional association dedicated to product managers, brand managers, product marketing managers and other professionals who cover the entire discipline of the product life-cycle throughout any industry.

For information or to register for the Conference go to http://www.aipmm.com/pmec

About the Association of International Product Marketing and Management

The AIPMM provides value to its individual members, corporate members, and sponsors by providing training, education, certification and professional networking opportunities. Membership benefits include the national Product Management Educational Conference, regional conferences, the Career Center, peer Forums, tools, templates, publications and eligibility to enroll in the Certification Programs. The Certified Product Manager (CPM) and Certified Product Marketing Manager (CPMM) program allows individual members to demonstrate their level of expertise and provides corporate members an assurance that their product professionals are operating at peak performance. For more information on issues concerning product management and product managers go to http://www.aipmm.com.

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