[bxparks]

The concepts of "product-minded engineer" and "engineering-minded pm" make a lot of sense. But what do you mean by "reduced waste" in the context of software development?

[barrkel]

Engineering builds the wrong thing, or more likely builds things in such a way that they are harder to adapt to features further out the roadmap.

[nitrogen]

I've also seen this waste when a PM micromanages aspects of the engineering they are not familiar with, and forbids more senior engineers from thinking about the future (e.g. by refusing to allocate time for obvious foundational engineering).