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When Your Product Manager Becomes Your Boss - Dev Leader Weekly 146

TL; DR:

Healthy conflict between product and engineering matters
A non-technical boss isn't an automatic dealbreaker
Surface tech debt before it gets ignored
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When Your Product Manager Becomes Your Boss

This week's topic comes from a post over on the ExperiencedDevs subreddit, and it's a good one: is it normal for the product owner or product manager to be your boss? The person who posted it had their engineering manager leave -- and instead of backfilling that role, leadership made the product manager who already worked with the team the new manager of the engineers. So now the engineers report into a product manager, and as far as I can tell there's no engineering manager replacement coming. That's just the path forward. They were asking the obvious question: is this normal, and what should I make of it?

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