{"id":2219,"date":"2025-09-25T13:02:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T11:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/?p=2219"},"modified":"2025-11-08T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T22:00:00","slug":"michael-lopp-the-product-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2025\/09\/25\/michael-lopp-the-product-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Lopp: The Product Engineer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Michael Lopp \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/randsinrepose.com\/archives\/the-product-engineer\/\">The Product Engineer<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThey honestly claim this voting structure not because they want all the power; they want to cast the tie-breaking vote when there is gridlock occasionally. And, ya\u2019know, sometimes someone needs to decide, ya\u2019know, just to keep moving things along.<\/p><p>Bullshit. They do want the power.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cA Product Engineer:<\/p><ul>\n\t<li>\u2026 Intimately knows how the products work and can explain any feature or inner workings to anyone. When they find a gap in their knowledge, they fill it.<\/li>\n\t<li>Have a deep understanding of how users perceive their features and how their changes would affect their perception. They can wear the customer mindset.<\/li>\n\t<li>\u2026 Have living breathing code in the product \u2014 right now.<\/li>\n\t<li>\u2026 Communicates well in every direction because they\u2019ve developed professional relationships in all those directions.<\/li>\n\t<li>Are aggressively curious and willing to learn anything relevant to the design and development of the product, especially when it\u2019s outside of their area of expertise.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Lopp \u2013 The Product Engineer: \u201cThey honestly claim this voting structure not because they want all the power; they want to cast the tie-breaking vote when there is gridlock occasionally. And, ya\u2019know, sometimes someone needs to decide, ya\u2019know, just to keep moving things along. Bullshit. They do want the power.\u201d \u201cA Product Engineer: \u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-2219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog","tag-links"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2220,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2219\/revisions\/2220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}