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Re: top of game, I’ll bet an engineer makes a better product manager than a siloed product manager with no engineering experience. Generally speaking, and with

Re: top of game, I’ll bet an engineer makes a better product manager than a siloed product manager with no engineering experience. Generally speaking, and with no metric to judge such a subjective bold claim with. Knowing how things work and are built can reduce the “bad idea” quotient. Going out on a spending spree is best informed by knowing your bank balance and individual prices and tradeoffs. Maintenance of said product is a factor of interaction between engineering and stakeholders and customers, so knowing what is involved makes a difference.

youeseh 4y ago
> I’ll bet an engineer makes a better product manager than a siloed product manager with no engineering experience. This depends on who the product's consumers are and how mature the company is. A skilled product manager uses the expertise of engineers to build a great product. Being an ex-engineer is arguably useful in a fast-paced small team like an early stage startup but it can also turn into an annoying (to engineers) liability in an environment where product and engineering responsibilities are defined.