5 learnings of a great collaboration between a developer and a product manager

One of the best collaborations I had in my career was with PMs and I'm sharing with you my learnings!

Intro

When both PM and dev are collaborating and working together towards the same goal - no problem can’t be solved.

The best collaboration is when both PM and dev understand what part of the development process each of them are owning.

Let me first share my experience working with PMs.

My experience working with PMs

When I started my career as an engineer, one of the biggest things I needed to learn is that I can’t work alone.

I need good people around me to successfully finish bigger and more long-term projects.

I was always good at communicating with clients or customers and I have always been well organized as well, but I quickly found out that for bigger projects, I just couldn’t do the project management together with being a lead developer.

I got burned out over too much information and responsibilities.

I needed to make a decision in which direction I wish to move with my career and I didn’t hesitate a bit to focus a lot more on development and leave the project/product management par…