My interest is to be able to understand and keep up with conversations in that specific area, not make those calls myself. It's similar to how, as a product ma

My interest is to be able to understand and keep up with conversations in that specific area, not make those calls myself. It's similar to how, as a product manager, you don't have to be a principal software engineer with a PhD from MIT to collaborate with your development team. However, you do benefit greatly from understanding the issues and the challenges of building software at a much less sophisticated level, so you can speak the same language.