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One thing I find frustrating is that non-engineering people in tech companies don’t get held to as high standards of productivity because it can be harder for especially engineering founders to evaluate whether they are doing a good job. This can lead to people thinking those roles are “worthless” and then Continuing to have low standards for those roles.

The best combo project/product manager I had didn’t have either official title, but we were on an internal team and somehow she always managed to make sure people around the company knew what we were doing and delivering, pester people so that no tasks were dropped, etc.

Interestingly, she did most of this by putting tickets for projects into Google docs, and otherwise didn’t buy into any of the standard project management dogma. She had an ear/nose for who might want to use our stuff and was relentless at getting us on internal presentations of any teams/groups that would be interested.