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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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Product Managers vs. Project Managers: Difference, Responsibilities, and KPIs

Altexsoft

How often do you confuse a project manager and a product manager? The Project Management Institute says that only 58 percent of organizations fully understand the value of project management. Comparing the role of project manager & product manager.

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The 7 venial sins of IT management

CIO

It can do it the simple way — allocate the IT budget to cost-center managers based on some easy-to-understand metric, like percent of the corporation’s total headcount, or the percent of the total corporate budget the cost-center manager controls. The But part happens when IT explains how much it’s charging. Probably not.

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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.

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Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros

CIO

The certification is also well-suited for software engineers, business analysts, and project managers. The PMI-ACP requires a secondary degree, 21 contract hours of training in agile practices, 12 months of general project experience within the past five years, and eight months of agile project experience within the past three years.

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Product Managers: How to Succeed on Every Project

Modus Create

As product managers our job description is pretty simple: to make all of our software development projects succeed. In fact, I would go so far as to say any failures or successes of the team are failures or successes of product management. What are your KPIs for the product post-launch? Define Success.

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What is SAFe? A framework for scaling business agility

CIO

Lean portfolio management: By applying Lean and systems thinking, SAFe organizations ensure their entire portfolio is aligned and funded to deliver strategic value. This requires strong coordination of decentralized activities as well as governance around spending, compliance, and metrics.

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