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The Product Manager asterisk

TechCrunch

Product manager might be one of the most grey roles within a startup. Of these positions, product management might be one of the most elusive — and key — roles to fill. Product managers need to realize that there is a lot of janitorial work that gets done in product management,” he said.

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Product manager salary: Pay range factors, tips for making more

CIO

As project-based business practices give way to product-focused cross-functional teams, the product manager role is taking on prominence, increasingly attracting interest from job candidates who might otherwise go into IT. Do product managers make good money? As you grow in your career, so will your salary.

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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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Speak-up Culture: How to Encourage More (and Better) Ideas

Let's Grow Leaders

You’re a human-centered leader working to create a courageous, speak-up culture filled with psychological safety. A culture where employees feel invited and encouraged to speak up and share their ideas and express their concerns. How to Include Your Reluctant Employees in Your Speak-Up Culture. Silent Ponderous.

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Modus Product Management and Strategy Practice

Modus Create

Product management teams are overwhelmed. I can say this authoritatively because Modus has been providing product consulting to clients of all sizes for nearly a decade. The root cause: there is no universal definition of what product management is, and as generalists, product managers end up doing everything.

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Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

CIO

Test, measure, and learn comes with responsibility, so it has a lot to do with a healthy failure culture and leadership.” Many different cultures and communities come together here, and I feel that eases the collaboration, and this is the perfect fit to our target and our culture.”

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GV partner Terri Burns is joining us to judge the Startup Battlefield

TechCrunch

And then, of course, they choose the winner who gets to take home $100k and the Disrupt Cup. Burns previously worked as a developer evangelist and front-end engineer at Venmo and an associate product manager at Twitter. At GV, she’s invested in high school social app HAGS and social audio app Locker Room.