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Mark seems awesome and thoughtful and deliberate. But it does seem that he implements some features without the approval of, or from the text, against the wishe
by rfrey 5y ago
Mark seems awesome and thoughtful and deliberate. But it does seem that he implements some features without the approval of, or from the text, against the wishes of, the product people.
Maybe his product people were unreliable and unsympathetic to the users - he suggests so in the first anecdote. Maybe all product people are, I dunno. But I have been on projects where engineers were allowed (usually de facto rather than by policy) to unilaterally add features they thought were important. The results are not always as positive as they are in this article.
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- couchand 5y agoIt sounds like these anecdotes are related to internal business systems. In over a decade I've only once seen a place that dedicated an actual FTE to internal product management, and that was because a whole team was dedicated to building those internal tools. Much more likely, I'd guess, is that either nobody was responsible or the person ostensibly responsible had other things to focus on. The way these systems are usually supported is no official resourcing, but rather "grab Mark's time when he's in the office."