If your engineering manager tells you that his team cannot pick up an item from your roadmap because of a lack of capacity or required skill set (different language) what should you as a product manager do?

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Lack of capacity - PM to reprioritize work and determine what can be temporarily skipped/delayed if this item is higher priority.

Lack of skill set - consider a research spike for what it would take. Is this something that am engineer can pick up quickly, or do you need an outside consultant. Does it REALLY need to be written in that language or can the team find a work around? Is this something you can buy and plug in?

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Agree with PM 1

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This happens all the time, reroute resources, usually this involves bringing in the eng director, or in PM run eng orgs, a simple discussion with a peer. I hit this issue all the time with f-ing typescript, why is every legacy app goddamn written in typescript, no one knows it outside of devops hilariously (in my experience)

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