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Leland breaks into the coaching space with a focus on careers, not classes

TechCrunch

The coaching world is crowded. There’s BetterUp, a re-skilling platform that wants to bring executive coaching to employees , and Sounding Board, which mixes SaaS and coaching services. The company says that, in the last nine months, hundreds of customers have purchased more than 2,500 hours of coaching on Leland.

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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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5 surefire ways to derail a digital transformation (without knowing it)

CIO

Customize solutions to meet everyone’s requirements Many organizations use agile methodologies when planning and executing digital transformation and assign multidisciplinary teams to manage releases, sprints, and backlogs. But are product managers developing market- and customer-driven roadmaps and prioritized backlogs?

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Digital transformation’s fundamental change management mistake

CIO

Over the past decade, CIOs have invested significantly in digital transformation initiatives in an effort to improve customer experiences, build data analytics capabilities, and deliver productivity enhancements with automation. Devops must not undermine change management How often should agile teams release code into production?

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A PM’s Guide to Forging an Outcome-Driven Product Team

Speaker: Kim Antelo, Transformation Coach

The best product teams evaluate themselves not by the quantity or speed with which they release new features, but by how much those features add value. In this webinar, Transformational Coach Kim Antelo will walk through a case study of a healthcare company with lofty OKRs, but with little tie-back to the product performance.

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Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros

CIO

A-CSMs attend educational offerings to gain techniques and skills that go beyond the basics and introductory mechanics of Scrum, expanding into interaction, facilitation, coaching, and team dynamics, according to Scrum Alliance. Cost : PSPO I: $200; PSPO II: $250; PSPO III: $500 Renewal : The PSPO-1 does not expire.

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Atrium grabs fresh capital to help sales teams meet their quota

TechCrunch

The sales management technology company closed on $20 million in Series A funding to continue developing its tools that automatically monitor a company’s most important key performance indicators, get insights into performance to evaluate what is working and what isn’t and how to proactively coach the team to improve productivity and revenue.

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