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Software project management challenges — and how to handle them

CIO Business Intelligence

The intersection of agile software development practices and ‘traditional’ project management remains a challenge for many organizations,” Chowning says. “By I categorize project metrics mainly into two buckets, one that monitors project execution and the other that measures business outcome,” she says.

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

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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. Muppirala was most recently CTO and president of digital innovation at retailer Restoration Hardware, now know as RH.

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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. If you’re already a product manager, how do you bag yourself a raise? Digibee’s Porte agrees.

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Top Five Itineraries for the CIO's Offshore Visit

Social, Agile and Transformation

What should a CIO say to the troops - the architects, developers, testers, project managers, business analysts, product owners, engineers, support staff - when you have limited opportunities to meet them face to face? crisis management. (3). it management. (34). product management. (26). project management. (50).

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How to hire the right product manager for your IT needs

CIO Business Intelligence

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. Seth Dobbs, CTO at IT services and consulting firm Bounteous, gives a pretty good thumbnail sketch of what an ideal product manager would look like.

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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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