Go near, go far, meet in the middle

1 · Ben Balter · June 28, 2019, 9:17 p.m.
There’s been a number of times in my career where I’ve been fortunate enough to join an existing engineering team to lead their product efforts. Most often it’s that they’ve operated without a product manager for some time as the organization grew and matured or priorities shifted, but it could be that your joining a team that previously had a product manager with a different approach or product philosophy. Regardless of the reason for the change, you’ll quickly find yourself in issue triage mod...