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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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TechCrunch+ roundup: Down-funnel growth metrics, RIF planning, is e-commerce aggregation over?

TechCrunch

Follow-on funding is harder to come by, but seed-stage founders who have a strong idea and good presentation skills can still close rounds. To wit: Five Flute, an issue-tracking platform for hardware product managers, recently raised a $1.2M To optimize for growth, study your down-funnel metrics. pre-seed deck.

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What you need to know about product management for AI

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

If you’re already a software product manager (PM), you have a head start on becoming a PM for artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML). You’re responsible for the design, the product-market fit, and ultimately for getting the product out the door. Product managers for AI need to lead that rethinking.

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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. Unfortunately, the business impact of many digital transformations continues to fall short of expectations.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Minimizing M&A mayhem, cybersecurity PM checklist, open source AI

TechCrunch

Series A deck Image Credits: Fibery (opens in a new window) Based in Cyprus, workflow and knowledge management platform Fibery raised a $5.2 Unlocking the M&A code: 5 factors that can make (or break) a deal Pitch Deck Teardown: Fibery’s $5.2M million Series A in September 2022.

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9 tips for achieving IT service delivery excellence

CIO

Listen and be empathetic to the user’s situation before presenting — and enacting — the best possible solution. “In He notes that the catalog should present a clear definition of offerings as well as methods for delivery while ensuring that sales and delivery departments are consistently aligned.

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Hire “architects” and require even small changes to have an “architecture review” Require even small changes to have a “security review” Product Dismiss useful metrics on academic grounds (e.g. Pick vanity metrics with little or no correlation with business value and high amount of noise.