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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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Grain lands $16M led by Tiger Global to turn virtual meetings into ‘libraries’

TechCrunch

Grain , a four-year-old, fully remote startup that’s finding increasingly elaborate ways to capture video snippets of online meetings to make important moments easy to share, search and save, has raised $16 million in Series A funding led by Tiger Global Management. Podium has roughly 2,000 employees.).

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Atrium grabs fresh capital to help sales teams meet their quota

TechCrunch

Jason Heidema, co-founder and CEO of Atrium, said the new investment was a little earlier than the company initially planned, but after meeting Mike Marg, principal at Craft Ventures, Heidema felt that Marg was an expert on go-to-market and understood how to help Atrium build a new category of sales management.

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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. Documentation and well-written user stories guide teams in completing the work and meeting requirements.

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Product Market Fit: A Lesson from Sephora’s Head of Product

Speaker: Sneha Narahalli - VP, Head of Product at Sephora

If the needs of your target audience aren't clearly defined, PMF, which combines qualitative and quantitative metrics, has numerous chances of failing. Creating an iterative process to identify Product Market Fit. What metrics you should track to measure product-market fit.

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Product Management Best Practices

UruIT

Product management is essential for the success of a product or service. Good product management ensures a product is streamlined and efficient from inception to disposal. Great product management does all that while balancing the wants and needs of the various stakeholders and customer base as well.

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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. Pick vanity metrics with little or no correlation with business value and high amount of noise. Always require a meeting for any decision, no matter how trivial.