When it comes to building and launching a successful product, there are many roles involved in the process. Three of the most important roles are the product manager, the business analyst, and the product owner. While these roles may seem similar on the surface, they each play a distinct and critical role in bringing a product to market. Let’s take a closer look at the differences between them and explore what each role entails.
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Moving from engineering to product management
After working as a software engineer for more than ten years, I found myself in a place where I just didn’t feel comfortable anymore. As I’ve built up a lot of experience throughout my engineering career, people within the companies I worked for, but also recruiters from other companies, started to approach me by offering all kinds of lead engineering roles. Although this would have been the logical next step in my career it just didn’t feel right. For me, coding often was like a means to an end. I liked building stuff, but unlike a lot of my colleagues, I was never ‘proud’ of the code that I wrote. Not because it was bad, I think it was quite good most of the time. I was proud of the thing that I’d just built and shipped. A feature that users would hopefully enjoy.
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