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Would love some help on this one from folks who know me. Product management has long confused me inasmuch as it centers what seems like it should be the whole team’s concern in one or two people. IME PMs will have elite school/employer history compared to devs and designers 🤔.
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someone explain to me what product managers do?? is this just middle management for tech? I swear to god I’ve been reading medium for 3 years it’s still not clear to me
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Umm no Elite overproduction is Peter Turchin’s concept not mine. It’s like too many art history majors. What’s confusing about PMs? I think of it as person who owns customer relationship and prioritizes features for development. Would be chaos to have whole team do that.
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Leaned it from you, recognize you didn’t originate. I’ve worked on pretty small teams for most of the past decade where investing full product responsibility in a single person can be overkill. Have seen a lot of value in a customer liaison at all levels for sure.