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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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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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5 hot IT hiring trends — and 5 going cold

CIO

Recruiters are opening the door for so much talent of different genders, education, nationalities, and beliefs,” Barley says. More and more companies are now walking the walk when it comes to inclusivity, not only during recruiting but in focusing on retention and working with employees on their career pathways,” she says.

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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. Recruit very expensive senior leaders with large headcount promises.

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This pan-African freelance platform is the first Zimbabwean startup backed by Techstars

TechCrunch

Also, AfriBlocks assigns a project manager to the selected freelancer who manages the project through completion. Before AfriBlocks, Choto, who grew up in Zimbabwe, served as a product manager at BillMari, a pan-African remittance service leveraging bitcoin technology.

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Competency Lost

The Agile Manager

The applications on the tech estate were redefined as products, assigned delivery teams responsible for them with Product Owners in the pivotal position of defining requirements and setting priorities. Product Owners were recruited from the ranks of the existing Business Analysts and Project Managers.

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Why agile? How agile vanishes hidden costs

Xebia

So, you become more effective and get more impact with the same people: These hidden costs are: Sunk costs Costs of delay Switching costs HR: Recruitment/onboarding costs and dropouts. And as a bonus, it diminishes your recruitment and onboarding costs. Projects start with expectations of revenue and costs.

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