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Why Truly Great Product Managers Love Code Review

Brennan on December 05, 2018

Many years ago, I started my career in product management with only a basic understanding of what is code review—developers looking through each ot...
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Kyle Stephens • Edited

I originally scheduled one week for our first sprint to make a handful of maintenance updates. It took eight.

If Product Managers are setting the timescales for this, something is going wrong. Sure, consult a PM and ensure the correct priorities are being addressed but PM should not be managing the technical teams estimates and deadlines. It's a recipe for incurring technical debt.