As a product manager who sits squarely between IT and business, I know absolutely that the last year has seen my game improve dramatically. I'm somewhat of a wannabe coder anyway, so for me it's been a great, though very taxing opportunity to step up my skill sets.
Specifically, the external forces of an imploding market have resulted in a necessary bleeding of domain expertise, really on both sides. Whereas I understand large scale development way better than I did a year ago, most engineers in my company have a much better feel for the business end. They probably weren't as enthusiastic about learning that stuff as I was about learning code design, but we communicate way better now.
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As a product manager who sits squarely between IT and business, I know absolutely that the last year has seen my game improve dramatically. I'm somewhat of a wannabe coder anyway, so for me it's been a great, though very taxing opportunity to step up my skill sets.
Specifically, the external forces of an imploding market have resulted in a necessary bleeding of domain expertise, really on both sides. Whereas I understand large scale development way better than I did a year ago, most engineers in my company have a much better feel for the business end. They probably weren't as enthusiastic about learning that stuff as I was about learning code design, but we communicate way better now.