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Good product people have always been visionary, lead by a strong sense of design and understanding of how to meet the user needs. Product Managers are the mode
by time_to_smile 4y ago
Good product people have always been visionary, lead by a strong sense of design and understanding of how to meet the user needs.
Product Managers are the modern day bureaucrats created to reduce the individual impact on product and make PMs hot swappable like engineers (who I also think are better when they they have the aforementioned skills).
Google should be considered in object lesson in the problems of trying to bureaucratize product creation.
- jack_riminton 4y agoThis nails it (I used to be a PM, now I'm an engineer) The PMs job has become so much about process, that any 'product sense' is completely disregarded because it can't be measured objectively. Truly great products e.g. the original iPhone, rarely have PMs
- marcosdumay 4y agoThe original iPhone did very clearly and famously have a product manager. It was the same person that was also responsible to paper of CEO.
- jack_riminton 4y agoKen Kocienda one of the first engineers working on the iPhone disagrees with you on that https://twitter.com/kocienda/status/1529521111104299008?s=20 https://twitter.com/kocienda/status/1529521111104299008?s=20