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The global tech labor shortage is becoming far more than an annoyance for companies within and outside the technology space. These days, nearly every organization is, to some extent, a software company. Job site Monster...

The labor shortage in tech is now a global problem, and it’s not going away anytime soon. According to research and consulting firm Korn Ferry, “by 2030, there will be a global human talent shortage...

As a former Product Owner (PO) with years of experience training and working with Product Owners around the world, I’m often asked, ‘What makes a good Product Owner?’ And my answer isn’t a list of...

Over the last 15 years, I’ve hired dozens of software engineers, and it has never been enough. The demand for developers just continues to grow as the products we use every day become more entwined...

Today\'s business leaders and HR managers face seismic shifts in the business landscape, whether pandemic-related or precipitated by competitive innovation. To respond, organizations often have to reduce staff and skills in one area of the...

When teams are asked to pick up a new piece of work, estimation inevitably comes into play. Determining the size of each item of work is a valuable part of any planning process. If we...

Product thinking—and its direct result, product agility—is a paradigm shift for companies that previously relied exclusively on project management to plan and manage long-term initiatives. And it’s proven to be highly effective and beneficial. But,...

While product design and more general product thinking are becoming the industry ideal, many organizations struggle to implement them fully and reap the benefits. In many cases, the problems they’re facing can be boiled down...

In the world of project management, outputs — what you produce in relation to what you planned to produce and the metrics for measuring how efficiently you did so — have long ruled the definition...

You may have heard (more than once…) the idea of ‘Project to Product’. Indeed, in recent years this notion is increasingly becoming a buzzword. It’s worth asking, however, what does this idea really mean and...

Project to Product Thinking Part 3 Dating back to the early 2000s the Agile movement drove tremendous advancements in process maturity. We learned to work and deliver in iterations, and focus on progress. But what’s...

Project to Product Thinking Part 2 One of the main promises agility is supposed to deliver on is decreased costs. Most organizations view IT as a cost center and believe that if IT becomes more...