This post is dedicated to all the great engineering leaders that I worked closely with.❤️
Working with product can be lonely. Product managers need to influence people without having direct authority. Product managers need to negotiate with stakeholders and also say no to a lot of people who do not expect that response.
Personally I never felt lonely, because I had great engineering leaders as my counter-parts. Many of Engineering managers and leaders became my friends with time.
If you ever feel that you are lonely as a PM, ask yourself, have you spent enough time building good collaboration with your engineering lead.
High degree of trust and support
Tip: Spend time and effort to get to know each other. Building trust requires vulnerability and the ability to work with each other's strengths as well as weaknesses
Alignment towards common goals
Being a team when facing difficult decisions
Giving each other feedback
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