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Shankar's avatar

Love your posts Will! I was wondering if you can talk about your experience working with PMM at Facebook. I don’t see PMM mentioned above.

So, curious to hear how you view their roles.

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Will Lawrence's avatar

Thanks, Shankar! That's a neat topic. I work closely with PMM and its definitely something I could write about.

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Pavel Safarik's avatar

That would be awesome Will, also interested into how do you work with PMMs.

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Ipso's avatar

I find it interesting that companies are constantly inventing the wheel anew, and "discover" things that are readily available to everyone. I think it's just a matter of leadership enabling this to happen, while at other organizations, leadership supports something more strict, e.g. more technical, or more project-mgmt oriented, or more subservient, etc. Best of luck to FB and everyone else who is empowering people to do their best work.

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Sam's avatar

Great post - would you say a tech lead should typically do any coding themselves, or do you see their role purely as a support role for the other engineers on the team?

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Will Lawrence's avatar

I’ll defer to this great article on the tech lead role in a team like this: https://domk.website/blog/2021-01-12-tech-lead-empowered-product-team.html

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Rodrigo Reis's avatar

Great post - I was wondering, what role does the Engineering Manager play within Facebook product teams?

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Cherry Dotman's avatar

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Cherry Dotman's avatar

I am so delighted to have found this page, very supportive and informative... I was diagnosed of Parkinson disease in 2019 but my first symptoms occurred in 2020.. I had severe symptoms ranging from tremors, trouble walking, whole body weakness, rigidity and stiffness. I was given medications which helped but only for a short period of time, so I decided to try alternative measures and began on PD-5 treatment program from www. multivitamincare .org  This treatment program has made a huge difference for me, I had improved with walking, balance, tremors, increased appetite, no stiffness or rigidity. I am so very thankful.

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marie jakob's avatar

My husband was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease 2 years ago, when he was 49. He had a stooped posture, tremors, right arm does not move and also a pulsating feeling in his body. He was placed on Sinemet for 8 months and then Siferol was introduced and replaced the Senemet, during this time span he was also diagnosed with dementia. He started having hallucinations, lost touch with reality. Suspecting it was the medication I took him off the Sifrol (with the doctor’s knowledge) and started him on PD natural herbal formula we ordered from Health Care HERBAL CENTRE, his symptoms totally declined over a 3 weeks use of the Health Care HERBAL Parkinson's disease natural herbal formula. He is now almost 51 and doing very well, the disease is totally reversed! Visit w w w. healthcareherbalcentre .com

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Michael Spencer's avatar

Hey Will love the growth and focus on PM value. You'd be invited to join my new Discord channel for Substack Creators: https://discord.gg/N6AX5AFu

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Abhijit's avatar

Hi Will, your way of articulating and sharing your experience is extremely impressive. Very recently I have entered into the product management role and I would like to learn more on how to create product strategies and work on the execution with more real examples. Could you help me share any reference for some product based books/ebooks or any other blogs to follow?

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Neal's avatar

I have to say this is the best article that I have read so far to clearly explained FANNG PM job responsibility. Well written and Well communicated.

The only thing I would say the FANNG PM do not have is "competitive market fit sense" which is why not a lot of these PMs who built very successful companies from 0 to 1. But they have tons of experience to take a product from 20->80 or 70-100.

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Philipp Römer's avatar

Hey Will, great post. This thing has gone viral even in Germany and I found myself debating many of your questions with Engineers and PMs as well. I think you put it well: empowered versus non-empowered team is a key differentiator on whether this can work or not. And then you will have stronger and weaker teams whom you (as management) trust more or less and thus empower more or less --> leading to various ways of "doing product management" even in the same organization.

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Will Lawrence's avatar

Hey Philipp, thanks for the note. On the note of trust, Marty Cagan specifically calls this out as the key distinguisher between empowered and non-empowered team. It isn’t that you need A+ players in every role, but leadership needs to trust their employees with ownership.

P.S. I’d be curious to hear what you mean by going viral in Germany 😅

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Philipp Römer's avatar

It means everybody in product management I've talked to recently had seen that post ;) - I think this is a really interesting question: if you don't have A+ players, can you trust them? What if you can't without closer guidance. Than there is no empowerment. But is that wrong in this scenario?

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Will Lawrence's avatar

That’s awesome to hear.

Short answer: yes. Long answer, read the “Ordinary People” section of this post by Marty Cagan: https://svpg.com/empowered-product-teams/

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