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		adeelk93 on Oct 19, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Product vs. Engineering In your farmer analogy, you totally omitted that you need to consider market demand. That’s why you’re growing things in the first place. That’s not a technical decision, and totally is something the PM should understand.

q7xvh97o2pDhNrh on Oct 19, 2022 [–]

Sure, that's totally reasonable.

The PM can bring those constraints to the table; the Engineer brings other constraints from their perspective; and the Designer brings even more.

Then they work together to creatively explore the problem space and converge on a solution together.

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