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Every place I've worked at in my 30 year career has had product managers in practice. They rarely had that as their title. The most common title for that ro
by bryanlarsen 1y ago
Every place I've worked at in my 30 year career has had product managers in practice. They rarely had that as their title. The most common title for that role has been "CEO", since I've mostly worked in small companies. Some have had extensive engineering experience, some didn't. Some were actually working on the product, some weren't.
The best had a good rapport with both customers and engineers. Engineering experience helped gain this, but I've seen good ones without a lot of engineering experience. But I've never seen a good one without any engineering experience.
- sarchertech 1y agoThe problem isn’t that a single CEO exists who is ultimately making the final decision. The problem is when companies try to create scores of “mini CEOs” (this is actually how PMs were explained when they started popping up) to oversee every aspect of every product. A CEO of any but the smallest companies will have many other responsibilities, so they’ll have no choice but to delegate the majority of the decision making to the people actually building the product. A PM running the search feature or the user onboarding experience or the notification system doesn’t have this limitation. Also don’t get me wrong, I’ve worked with some fantastic PMs, but they were fantastic despite the role not because of it. Every good PM I’ve ever worked with had the capacity to be a good engineer even if they didn’t have the experience.
- bryanlarsen 1y agoI've worked with bad PM's who were good engineers and good PM's who were mediocre engineers.