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How and when to hire your first product manager

TechCrunch

Of these positions, product management might be one of the most elusive — and key — roles to fill. Product management might be one of the most elusive — and key — roles to fill. We spoke to startup founders and operators to get their thoughts about how and when they hired their first product manager.

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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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13 essential skills for accelerating digital transformation

CIO

It’s no secret that having the right capabilities is essential to digital success, but given the dynamic nature of digital business, these capabilities go beyond technical know-how. The market is tight, but we are not short of people with technical skills; people who can develop, build infrastructure, and understand the cloud,” says Fox.

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7 sins of digital transformation

CIO

“To meet digital transformation goals, companies must build structural ambidexterity, focus on short-term efficiency opportunities that fit the current structure and model, but also pursue medium- to long-term discontinuous expansion opportunities in business that potentially would require structural and cultural changes,” Senan advises.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision. Make sure production environment differs from developer environments in as many ways as possible. Encourage technical decisions based on wildly optimistic expectations of scale.

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14 in-demand cloud roles companies are hiring for

CIO

DevOps engineer DevOps focuses on blending IT operations with the development process to improve IT systems and act as a go-between in maintaining the flow of communication between coding and engineering teams. These pros are experts in the cloud and stay on top of the latest innovations in cloud technology to better advise business leaders.

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10 most difficult-to-fill IT roles — and how to address the gap

CIO

For example, Savio Lobo, CIO at managed service provider Ensono, finds talent more readily available in the UK and US than in years past, while hiring in India is as difficult as ever. CIOs must up their talent game across the board, including talent management, engagement, training, and retention, in addition to hiring.