I work at a less innovative place, and I see out product managers coming with prototypes, at least solid mock ups rather than just a jira. They socialize it with potential users, they iterate, they find missing requirements, it's pretty powerful. The net result is we're building better features faster.
Can confirm this in my portco's and a couple other peers (one of whom previously founded a major threat intel platform). If you have product-minded Engineers and engineering-minded PMs, you can merge the two into a single function and remove much of the friction surrounding requirements, prototyping, and launching MVPs. A couple of these products are already being deployed by F100 security teams as we speak. I also k…
What separates a code monkey from a domain expert? Can you use infosec and embedded systems as two examples please?