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How to hire the right product manager for your IT needs

CIO

IT organizations are increasingly shifting from project-based organizational structures to product-based methodologies , which involve cross-functional teams. Product managers aren’t a new job category by any means, but this shift means that they’re newly prominent and important to many companies’ strategies.

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Project Managers, Focus on Outcomes — Not Deliverables

Harvard Business Review

If you’ve ever developed a product, you’ve almost certainly been derailed by scope creep. Features multiply, priorities blur, and schedules and budgets suffer. As a leader, how can you recognize scope creep and realign your team? Shift the focus from “what” you’re building (the deliverables) to “why” you’re building it (the outcomes).

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Top 5 Project Management Tools in 2021

Modus Create

Project management software includes a broad spectrum of tools. To know which project management tool your team should consider, you need to understand what collaboration challenges you are experiencing. Along the way, we’ve nurtured official partnerships with some of the world’s leading project management solutions.

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The 7 venial sins of IT management

CIO

It can do it the simple way — allocate the IT budget to cost-center managers based on some easy-to-understand metric, like percent of the corporation’s total headcount, or the percent of the total corporate budget the cost-center manager controls. That’s because IT has two ways to compute its chargebacks. Probably not.

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

CIO

After marked increase in cloud adoption through the pandemic, enterprises are facing new challenges, namely around the security, maintenance, and management of cloud infrastructure. Cloud product manager With cloud adoption often comes an increase in in-house development of cloud-based services.

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10 highest-paying IT jobs

CIO

Relevant skills include Java, JavaScript, organizational and leadership skills, technical knowledge, project management, and architecture design. They’re required to work closely with upper management, executives, and key stakeholders to identify business needs and requirements. Average salary: US$132,094 Increase from 2021: 10.8%

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The Strategic Product Backlog: Lead, Follow, Watch and Explore

DevOps.com

The economic outlook for 2023 suggests many organizations will be leading through a period of resource scarcity as IT budgets are scrutinized and organizational priorities are re-evaluated.

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