[adampunk]

>I'd say the average engineer would be much more capable of learning to be an average PM than vice versa.

software engineers love to imagine that they have the only job you can't train yourself to do quickly, all evidence to the contrary.

[dasil003]

I don't know how that relates to what I said, and it's certainly not something I believe. Personally I don't think any form of knowledge work can be learned quickly in 21st century, otherwise it would have been automated away already (well before the current wave of AI that further accelerates the trend). That goes for product management, design, operations, strategy equally to software engineering, data science any other technical disciplines.

[adampunk]

It relates directly to what you said. You said you thought that it would be pretty easy to teach an engineer to be a project manager and pretty hard to teach a project manager to be an engineer. That is just exactly the kind of directionality I pointed out.

[dasil003]

You're putting words in my mouth. Also, I was talking about Product Managers, there's a word of different between that role and Project Manager (or Program Manager).