## Metadata - Author: [[sherif-mansour|Sherif Mansour]] - Full Title:: Product Engineers - Category:: #🗞️Articles - Document Tags:: [[Déjame sin trabajo por favor|Déjame Sin Trabajo Por Favor]], - URL:: https://sherifmansour.medium.com/product-engineers-f424da766871 - Finished date:: [[2023-05-22]] ## Highlights > I was sitting next to > [Jean-Michel Lemieux](https://medium.com/u/c54c750c33ad?source=post_page-----f424da766871--------------------------------) > (“JML” ), our head of Engineering at the time ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h12egm4ksy77hvmdjkaamj0a)) > JML now works heading up Engineering at Shopify. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h12eh13nq3enz9k5rycvkfrd)) > “Doubt I invented the term, but I did use it a lot. As a young discipline we’ve spent a lot of time working out « how » to build software and that’s a big focus in schools still. But once you have the foundations, you need devs who engage with the « why » actively. Engineers who have a thirst for using technologies to leapfrog human/user problems. Those with empathy to reach for magical experiences. That is what defined a product engineer in my books ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h12enaq5taed1vtgptac202g)) ^36fcbc ## New highlights added [[2023-05-22]] > In many ways, I’d argue product managers should always have a personal goal of working out how they could make themselves redundant (granted, one might never achieve it). ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h12hq4jwqs8p7f7j9hyqv1ct)) ^06462a ## New highlights added [[2023-05-23]] > Building product is all about making trade-offs. The best trade-off decisions are made by someone with the sound knowledge of effort vs value. As product managers — we know zero about effort. Our job here is to bring the knowledge of the value and frequency of use cases. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h12m82vy09j9qhtc80hkqsqr)) > Let the product engineers, who spend most of their day living in the code, identify the low hanging fruit — they’ll do a much better job than we will ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h12mtgh9jk5nxr34yv6f6pmw)) > you’ll find a lot of our product engineers do a lot of internal blogging ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h12mwrar5j8san90p7hb3bm1)) > If they’re relying on you to create items and drag that Jira card up and down the backlog, have a think about what context you’re not providing to your team ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h12mxmnks1dth4hvypcbf93s))