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I got into product management maybe 10 years ago. At that time, it was more the bridge between sales and engineering, and you manage the technical marketing. You let each department work the way they work best and the roadmap is collaborative. Some places still have that but they are dwindling.

But I'd say over the past 5 years or so, wherever I go the expectation is that the PM must put their nose in everything and I'd have to gently, if diplomatically explain why that's dumb. I think it's the whole "the PM is the CEO of the product" which is stupid. The CEO is the CEO.

Take a look at most PM job adverts now. The expectations are insane and something only a go-getting type A MBA control-freak type would go for, with the expecting that you play an intimate role in low-level architecture decisions to leading webinars with end-users and everything in-between.

Who wants that? I might as well go start a company.

Terrible blog post BTW. Poorly written and badly developed arguments