Metadata
- Author: Sherif Mansour
- Full Title:: Product Engineers
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: DĂ©jame 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 (“JML” ), our head of Engineering at the time (View Highlight)
JML now works heading up Engineering at Shopify. (View Highlight)
“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)
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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)
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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)
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)
you’ll find a lot of our product engineers do a lot of internal blogging (View Highlight)
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)