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Re:More product, fewer product managers by hehhehaha on Sunday December 17, 2023 @05:39AM (#38671915)
Hard disagree, cross role context is critical for intuition on getting stuff done. A designer with no insight on engineering will create shitty designs that take forever to build, create patterns that arent reusable, etc. Engineers with no insight on product will not be able to balance the debt/product ratio properly. You can say that all of this gets sorted out with proper communication, but knowledge and intuition will always beat leaky bucket cross role comms
Re:More product, fewer product managers by PaulRobinson on Sunday December 17, 2023 @07:25AM (#38672383)
"Having context" isn't the same as "having ownership or accountability".

Of course there needs to be communication and context, but when engineers start to try and direct the "what" or the "why", it becomes as absurd as PMs trying to dictate the "how".