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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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Atlassian Extends Scope of Jira Project Management Portfolio

DevOps.com

At the Atlassian Presents: Unleash event today, Atlassian announced it is adding a Jira Product Discovery application to its portfolio. Jira Product Discovery makes it easier for organizations to keep track of the ideas that drive software development initiatives.

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Top 5 Project Management Tools in 2021

Modus Create

Project management software includes a broad spectrum of tools. To know which project management tool your team should consider, you need to understand what collaboration challenges you are experiencing. Along the way, we’ve nurtured official partnerships with some of the world’s leading project management solutions.

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The 7 venial sins of IT management

CIO

So in an attempt to provide advice you haven’t already received, here are seven venial sins of IT management, presented in no particular order, that you aren’t likely to get advice about from anywhere else. Too much managing, not enough leading Okay, I lied — a venial sin in and of itself. Just repetitious. Probably not.

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Skills and traits of elite product managers

CIO

IT organizations are shifting to product-based methodologies , in which cross-functional teams made up of both tech and business pros focus on a single product or service offering. That means you need to be a great communicator, says Dan Ciruli, VP of product management at software services provider D2iQ.

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CSM certification: Costs, requirements, and all you need to know

CIO

CSM certification Agile practices are being rapidly adopted in project and product management across many industries, and the ScrumMaster is an important leadership role in agile development to not only improve workflow but increase your value as your career evolves. Careers, Certifications, IT Skills, Project Management

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Simple sabotage for software

Erik Bernhardsson

Encourage product managers to spend most of their time on “strategy” and “planning” Make it hard/impossible for engineers and product manager to use the product internally. Put high performers on highly speculative R&D projects with unclear deliverables.