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It does, but it's still not something engineers do well. Imagine developing an AAA game with no one in charge of the overall product. Or creating a movie witho
by TheOtherHobbes 3y ago
It does, but it's still not something engineers do well.
Imagine developing an AAA game with no one in charge of the overall product. Or creating a movie without a producer or a director, expecting the talent to somehow organise itself.
PM isn't an engineering job, it's a vision job - one that needs enough technical knowledge to create a vision that's grounded in reality, while also appealing to customers, while also being able to sell it up and down the org.
That skillset is incredibly rare.
- pseudalopex 3y agoSeparating product from engineering, engineering management, and general management does not mean 1 person is in charge. Integrating them does not mean no one is. The article was all about the consequences of the skill set being incredibly rare.
- xorcist 3y agoThat was well put. Imagine that. Still we train our product managers to follow checklists, write endless documents about personas, have discussions about methodology and such things only loosely connected to the work that goes into making the actual product. Imagine if a director was a bureaucrat. One who followed checklists and made policy documents, and did not have the slightest clue about the actual craft of setting lights, working the camera, and acting. What's our profession's equivalent of a film director? One with deep knowledge about data structures, who cared about getting it right, together with professionals?
- saulpw 3y ago> What's our profession's equivalent of a film director? Scrum master.
- yCombLinks 3y agoHardly. Scrum master is more like a production assistant. Make sure everyone knows when and where they are supposed to be. Communicate any issues with the plan