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🎙️ Just published a new episode of Mostly Technical: 137: You Do Have To Care w/ John Drexler & Daniel Coulbourne. Have a listen:

share.transistor.fm137: You Do Have To Care w/ John Drexler & Daniel CoulbourneAaron is joined by John & Daniel of Thunk to talk about why you should...

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Justin Jackson

@justinjackson.ca

26 June

Following up @johnrudolphdrexler.com and @coulb.com's thought here: "devs need to think like product people." I'm wondering how scalable that is, in practice? How many "product manager-type thinkers" can one team have? If you have a team of 100 engineers, what does "thinking like a PM" look like?

Daniel Coulbourne

@coulb.com

26 June

I think it all comes back to owning the full stack on a feature. Can you take a feature from broad requirements to delivered code and possibly infra? One interesting case study is Posthog whose teams are made up of “product engineers” and PMs operate across teams posthog.com/handbook/pro...

posthog.comProduct management at PostHog - Handbook - PostHogPostHog has a product-minded engineering organization . Engineers own sprint planning and spec'ing out solutions. So, what is the role of product…

Pete Heslop

@pwheslop.com

26 June

For us, and our situation, we find it works well when our devs are able to see further than the ‘ticket/task’ in front of them. The commercial value, the business problem, the budget, the user etc. This isn’t being a product manager, this is being an experienced developer.