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Re:More product, fewer product managers by aurareturn on Sunday December 17, 2023 @04:46AM (#38671662)
>Best PMs that I worked with had a technical background.

Best PMs I worked with just figured out what users wanted and organized the team to build it through good communication. That's it.

Sometimes the technical PMs can be an issue because they care too much about the how and not enough of the why and what.

If your product is selling devtools to developers, then yes, it helps to have a technical PM. Case by case.

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Re:More product, fewer product managers by mewpmewp2 on Sunday December 17, 2023 @06:36AM (#38672170)
This would also depend really on how technical the product is, but if a product is technical and PMs don't have enough technical background they won't be able to understand nuance of what customers wanted and what is actually possible to do.
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