Shifting to product management from a traditional project-based approach has its challenges. Ensuring IT operations and service delivery are aligned to business outcomes is the key to success. Credit: PeopleImages.com – Yuri A / Shutterstock Most IT departments are under-resourced and left to debate what capabilities, improvements, and fixes to prioritize. Past shifts to agile methodologies helped as teams now had a product owne r to prioritize backlogs and adopted agile principles that empowered them to commit to a realistic amount of work. But many enterprises stopped their agile transformations at this layer. Some did manage to scale agile and leverage frameworks to create process standards and improve IT practices. But the work to get business leaders, stakeholders, and end-users to shift to agile mindsets mostly got stuck. People in business functions didn’t want to give up their project mindsets and control of getting what they needed from IT in the timelines required. As SaaS and other technology companies began to abandon traditional project management, product-based IT became a bold shift to business value . Leading CIOs began to see the shift from project- to product-based IT as a blueprint for success , and product management emerged as a […]