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> My diagnosis; the profession of software development is a victim of a hostile takeover from product managers, while pushing engineers out of control of their
by jSully24 6y ago
> My diagnosis; the profession of software development is a victim of a hostile takeover from product managers, while pushing engineers out of control of their domain.
Sorry, calling BS on this one. You’re calling out an entire group when, like most things, it’s a subset of the broader group. Good PMs understand that a complete product is not just new fancy features but a combination of Features, tech debt work, security and more. At the end of the day if our customers aren’t secure, we’re in trouble.
I’ve been on both teams. Once watching a PM stand n the midst of my engineering team proclaiming “I don’t give an F about your technical debt, when will my features be done?” And now I lead a product management team. Great companies have Product and Engineering trusting each other and working together. They may disagree from time to time, but they deliver together and work together to balance what gets done.