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by checoivan 5362 days ago
+1 on that.

Yes, you can be a PM without knowing code, but it's hard to be an excellent one.

A technical PM maybe doesn't code on a daily basis anymore, but one who understands technical challenges is highly valuable. A good PM who knows the chops can easily debug things when a customer calls, design good features and know whether it'll be easy or hard to implement,set more realistic goals,or call out BS from developers who says some easy task will take 4 weeks or something is impossible to implement.