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How the ‘diversity hire’ accusation and other barriers remain for Black women in tech

CIO Business Intelligence

The UK study also revealed that women of all backgrounds and ethnicities make up around 22% (approximately 424,000), compared to 48% of the entire UK workforce, with Black women in particular facing a wide range of obstacles, including discrimination and being accused by colleagues or superiors of being merely ‘diversity hires.’

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How to hire the right product manager for your IT needs

CIO Business Intelligence

As a result, many corporate leaders who are used to hiring for IT now have to learn what makes a good product manager as they seek to fill these roles. We spoke to a host of experts, including product managers and those who supervise, hire, and mentor them, about what you should be looking for if you’re hiring a new PM for your team.

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Tech Moves: Flexe hires Amazon biometrics leader; Fresh Chalk founder departs; and more

GeekWire

Flexible warehousing company Flexe hired Amazon vet Lara Rogers as SVP and general manager. Enterprise software startup Magnify announced Sajo Jacob as its CTO and a co-founder. He was most recently a general manager at Amazon where he spent eight years and previously a software architect at Microsoft. Lara Rogers.

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Tech News Roundup April 20

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An engine for Mars: Aerojet wins $67M NASA contract for solar electric propulsion. Free webinar series: ‘Agile for the Government Project Manager’. CTO Greg Godbout to leave EPA - FedScoop. GeekWire Deals: Learn the tricks of Amazon’s cloud with this discounted AWS course. House NDAA expands cyber ops - FCW.com.

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Product manager salary: Pay range factors, tips for making more

CIO Business Intelligence

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. The most difficult part is determining what specifically am I hiring you for.

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Why Stories Work where Requirements Documents Fail - Social.

Social, Agile and Transformation

In a traditional development practice, a product manager writes a long document describing the software requirements. The document is handed to analysts who break the requirements down to development tasks and a project manager develops a schedule and assigns resources to tasks. The product manager thinks about it and agrees.

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Four Phases of Maturing Enterprise Agile Development

Social, Agile and Transformation

But of course this also means that 65% are not practicing agile and Im certain that a large number of the 35% are only just maturing their practice. Will you make all projects follow an agile practice, or will you set guidelines on when to use agile vs. other practices? we did not start with a pilot project, we start with big account.

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