I’ve been hearing a lot about PMs needing to code, and it's making me feel like I’m being judged for not knowing how. Am I falling behind, or do you think it's not necessary to learn?

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You definitely don't need to code, this is nonsense.

Learn the basics about:

- API's
- Cloud computing (ideally specific to the tech stack you work in)
- Relationship databases
- ALM
- Frontend Vs Backend
- Data types.

Regards,

Devs.

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It's more (in my experience) about understanding what coders do than anything else. I used to be a programmer/developer. It helps you to understand the roadblocks they are facing. I was a PM but hated the work. Far preferred my roles as a technical BA and programmer. But my background coding helped when my coding team ran into issues with some changes Microsoft had implemented and I went digging through white papers for the answers and was able to bring their team lead the information they needed to resolve the problem. It's not a necessity it just can be helpful for managing client (internal and external) expectations and to be able to speak the same language. Now I am a technical writer (who occasionally codes work arounds on the middleware of our KB) and it still helps especially when writing new articles for new products.

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Lol any company that has PMs coding is not a serious company

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Depends on the role and org. Sometimes you do your own analytics pipelines and that requires some coding. Tech PM roles require coding knowledge and review

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If you are the product person trying to push out new technical product. You need to be able to explain it to techs and the customer. You also should have a decent idea what kind of work is needed and how much time each step can take.

As a project manager, I’m not a coder but I spend as much time as I can learning about what my team is doing so that i can add to what I know. With how fast technological projects changing, I’m using YouTube and a few other tools to learn the list that dev 1 calls out.

I agree with dev 1 on the topics. I would add that AI and IA is a big add that everyone is talking about right now. So, understanding bots, Ai, etc. probably would be something to learn about

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Nah! That ridunculous. I see the benefit of PM interpreting code(it’s a plus) but not write code. I work with PM and worked with PM from previous org, I have never seen where they are required to write code. If you learn coding, it should be because you are interested in enhancing your skill not because it’s required by crappy structure…..🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

maybe some general UI "coding" would be a bonus but nah, have never had or even wanted a PM who was a coder. Totally diff skill sets.

BAs/PMs should not be asked to code. Let devs do their job and we do ours and make business happen happy. Thats how I see it.

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