What is with the impatience and not wanting to listen to people under you and assert unnecessary dominance?
As a tech PM, I will still defer to the EMs decision on timelines. No point pushing or passing the pressure on a SDE for urgent business deliverables.
Spot on, both ‘good’ seed/A round startups I’ve seen delegate the program management of engg projects to EMs. EMs answer to cofounders when timelines not met - this leaves PMs in a high enthusiasm + willing to know/help state since engg deadlines aren’t owned by product.
Side question - I’m a PM in technical role (non-growth) but I do not have a tech degree. Am I a non tech PM?
If you are already in a technical role, you should be a Tech PM. Degrees don’t matter anyways once we’ve broken the PM entry barrier. My understanding is, if you’re well versed with System design and can whiteboard with the EM about potential solutions to the business problems, you’re technical enough.
All PMs should understand they're a "product" manager, not a people manager
because you can do it!
I've recently had more conflicts with the Engineering Manager in my team. This EM tends to want to influence the specifications of the product, even its design style. While I think having opinions is good, it's often hard to convince him...
Here is an incident that happened to me at my old startup. This literally gave me a wake-up call that shattered my "PM is mini-CEO" idea that all my mentors had told me about.
During a heated product roadmap + prio meeting, the actua...
Note - I am a product manager too
4 out of 5 product managers will act all high and mighty of themselves, bragging their way as if they run everything going on in the company, flaunting their business degrees and being utterly disresp...
Genuinely curious what is it that you think we do. In real life, I have had a great time with most engineers I have worked with.
I know there's going to be a lot of trolling but looking for some meaningful answers to improve my rapport...
What is the most underrated skill to be a great product manager?
Mine has always been the ability to make friends with people at the office. SWEs, other PMs etc
