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Engineers

Engineers

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Engineers

- As a product manager, there is no more important relationship than the relationship with your engineers. For most product teams with more than four engineers, you will have a technical engineering lead often referred to as a tech lead. The teach lead serves as the most frequent point of communication between the product manager, product designer, and the engineers. As a product manager, you are the bridge between the needs of the business and the technical realities of timelines and feasibility. I like to say that as a product manager, you sometimes have to speak two languages. If the business needs are one language and the engineering teams speaks another, you need to speak both. Let's look at a scenario in which our product manager Ray is speaking with the tech lead Jason and his engineers in order to come to an agreement on product timelines. - I was just talking to the CEO and we have only 30 days to finish analyze these changes to our user onboarding process. Can we do that? -…

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