Fournier: Platform teams require fewer PMs per engineer than product teams
Camille Fournier · The things engineers are desperate for PMs to understand | Camille Fournier (“The Manager’s Path”) · Sep 15, 2024 · at 1:02:11
Camille Fournier and Lenny Rachitsky discuss staffing ratios between product managers and software engineers in platform engineering organizations.
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“So much of the work in a platform team is not a Is not exactly product work. Like a lot of it's like, you know, scaling or really like deep kind of technical, like I got to figure out how to actually do this technical thing, or I've got to, you know, do this performance efficiency. And you don't always need like a product spec for that, right? Like that is often just a very engineering heavy task. And so, yes, I think the ratios do tend to be a bit different.”
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