Sure, but its impossible to be a good PM without coming from a programming background. Otherwise you won't know the difference between the easy, hard and imposs

Sure, but its impossible to be a good PM without coming from a programming background. Otherwise you won't know the difference between the easy, hard and impossible. My current company has been run into the ground because we had a salesperson in charge of product map making wild promises to customers. What they wound up settling on was a PDF report that costs us $5-$20 to make and we sell for $1!!! Utter insanity. We'll be pivoting out of necessity but we could have saved 6 months by putting someone technically competent in the role.