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Some of the best product managers I have worked with are former programmers...they just get it. When I hire people in these roles, I often specify "technical" i
by hbcondo714 10y ago
Some of the best product managers I have worked with are former programmers...they just get it. When I hire people in these roles, I often specify "technical" in the job title to attract these former programmers.
- henrik_w 10y agoI have the same experience.
- mywittyname 10y agoProgramming develops the skills found in good program managers. I think it's because so many of us build things that don't exist constantly. So we build a natural intuition about what are valuable problems to solve and can do it in ways that people would never consider, even "domain experts". A domain expert might try a naive or brute force approach to a very specific problem, while a programmer would see a graphing problem and instantly think of several different techniques to apply and be able to tell what outcome they'd produce.