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Maybe they're rare, too. I am but one person, but I've yet to work with one that I'd describe as a "joy".
by dfxm12 5y ago
Maybe they're rare, too. I am but one person, but I've yet to work with one that I'd describe as a "joy".
- happimess 5y agoI have, at a truly well-run engineering team. She was fun to bounce ideas off of, and quick to rope in relevant experts, business or techincal. She also understood the value proposition of each feature, and could easily spot if you were wasting cycles on something unimportant. Probably not coincidentally, this was the only place I've worked where KPIs were truly a useful way of framing our place within the organization.
- notjustanymike 5y agoI've spent a lot of my time helping ours grow into a collaborating by walking them through my expectations of a product brief and what we need from our user stories. They're also really good at helping with the release, managing story sign-off and communicating changes with the other teams (customer success, account managers, sales team, etc). A good product manager manages... the product. They also collect all the user feedback, validate feature requests with data, and act as a guard for the rest of their engineering team.
- soneca 5y agoI have worked with a few. It made my job much easier. I’ve worked with a couple that were neutral to my job, but I’ve yet to work with one I hated