Product Development/Management. Understanding the ‘inputs’ to your role will make you more effective. Learning the WHY you’re building helps you prioritize and gives you credibility when arguing for/against decisions at a team level.
Learning about what a PM does has helped me make sense of how my work as a SEng relates to management, product and design. Specifically, the way I now spec, test and design systems in order to facilitate legibility, QA and coherence with the domain of the product has been greatly influenced by my amateur knowledge of product dev/mgmt.
Learning about what a PM does has helped me make sense of how my work as a SEng relates to management, product and design. Specifically, the way I now spec, test and design systems in order to facilitate legibility, QA and coherence with the domain of the product has been greatly influenced by my amateur knowledge of product dev/mgmt.