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Blog Articles
Moving From Engineering To Product Management
In the last article I talked about the role of architects and engineers in the product discovery process. I explained that great products come from the collaboration of the product manager, user experience designer and architect/engineer.
The Architect Role
The job of the product manager is first and foremost to discover a product that is valuable, usable and feasible. You’re wasting the rest of your team’s time, and your company’s money, if you can’t do this. But this doesn’t mean that you have to discover this product yourself.
What Product Management Is Not
I find that many companies remain stuck in old, failed models of product management, and don’t always realize how important role definition is to building effective teams and successful products.