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A pm job is conceptually one of the simplest jobs but one of the most difficult to execute. I've worked with two great PM's and a shitload of mediocre to bad o
by drblast 9y ago
A pm job is conceptually one of the simplest jobs but one of the most difficult to execute.
I've worked with two great PM's and a shitload of mediocre to bad ones. Technical competence, organization, willingness to work for a team of engineers, and humility is what it takes.
The military calls it "servant leadership." They teach classes in it.
Ideally, the military has lots of servant leadership but in reality it does not.
Oh, and bless the good PM's, they're worth their weight in gold. The mediocre ones might as well not be there. The bad ones are actively destructive.
- trevor-e 9y agoThe best product managers in my opinion are hands off. All too often I see PM's micromanage every little detail of their product instead of letting the engineers/designers (the experts) do their work. IMO the PM should be involved very little in day to day things and instead focus their time on user research, new features, feedback, etc.
- ulfw 9y agoI wholeheartedly agree. Sadly I have seen (and worked) in organizations that treat their engineers like they have zero creative thinking and merely use them as glorified typists. I have had an inexperienced CPO ask me to pseudo-code JIRA stories for an engineering team. You can imagine that ask didn't go far...
- gaius 9y agobless the good PM's, they're worth their weight in gold. The mediocre ones might as well not be there. The bad ones are actively destructive The same is true of recruiters
- ma2rten 9y agoThe same is true of programmers.