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Hell yes and hell no. My take is that a good Product manager is worth their weight in any ridiculously rare metal you care to name. They will act as a force m
by lifeisstillgood 5y ago
Hell yes and hell no.
My take is that a good Product manager is worth their weight in any ridiculously rare metal you care to name. They will act as a force multiplier for the dev team.
But a bad product manager will poison the well, make bad products and be out of sympathy with the code and tech.
And as it is very hard to tell the difference, well why not play it safe?
- actually_a_dog 5y agoIt’s not hard to tell the difference. It just either takes a while, or you have to spend a few months without a PM. I had a PM leave on me at my last job. It took 3 months to get a new PM. That meant all the PM work fell on devs for a while. Believe me, I could tell that both my old PM and the new one were good PMs after that experience.
- sdevonoes 5y ago> My take is that a good Product manager is worth their weight A good X is worth their weight. Sure, any good professional is always welcome, but in regular team in a regular company, regular PMs are mostly dead weight (in contrast, regular devs are just good-enough devs).