[dimmke]

I did want to clarify since this is under my real name, to me product managers are similar to project managers. 80% of them are useless- they don’t make the process of building software easier and don’t make the end result better (by whatever metrics you quantify “better”) but there is 20% that are worth their weight in gold.

My main issue is that decisions about features software should have shouldn’t be delegated to a specific role. That’s absurd. I’ve never seen a situation where this works. Because a product owner can be misaligned with executive level and their specifications for new requirements are always lacking.

But because of the way the industry works I could probably see myself taking on such a role someday as it seems to be one of the paths away from being a direct IC programmer into something more.