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I have been a "product person" for 15 years and I believe that product people like Michael describes are bad product people. A good product manager knows the U
by danielnicollet 16y ago
I have been a "product person" for 15 years and I believe that product people like Michael describes are bad product people. A good product manager knows the UI and the guts behind it. I am not an engineer by training but I wouldn't be a good product manager in this field if I didn't know how to build a web server either.
For the "Jeep Cherokee made from iron ore": I give up. ;-)
- TWAndrews 16y agoAgreed. The best product people are those who can understand the back end--even if they couldn't code it themselves, they have a respect and basic understanding for what's going on.
- nkurz 16y agoI want to believe, but I'm dubious. I'm almost certain when he says he can "make a web server", he means that he can sit down with a text editor, a compiler, and a standard C library, and produce a program that will serve HTTP requests. There's some gray area beyond this, but he definitely does not mean that he can download, configure, and run a premade piece of software. Is this what you mean too? Is there really a population of self-described "product people" who have this knowledge? Or did you interpret his statement differently? I certainly agree that such people exist, but I would be surprised that their luxurious gray beards don't blow their cover. Which is to say, do they really work as product managers?