It is very much this, your types are insanely valuable to how quickly and effectively we can blast through massive bodies of work that are well beyond the scale of personal-hobby-project. We're in the annoying HR-involved process of revising the role internally to actually include the word 'Technical _' & the bullet points of expectations will demand such capacities. It's been an exciting shift for us and we've reappropriated non-technical product owners/managers to roles they are happier in (and believe it or not we are happy for them).

We didn't get it right the first, second, third, fourth or fifth time. I'd say as an org we are learning lessons that other orgs may have learned a decade ago, but it's just nice to come to these conclusions on our own & really understand how our setup came to be. We hope we remember that things can evolve again in the future, but are grateful that we journeyed together and didn't just throw in the towel and fire people when things didn't work out. We believe sending people through some fires of hell, reassessing, then reattempting is sort of a cycle that levels people up.

We hope to have more technical product guys on board up ahead cause it's a dream setup that really organizes and harnesses velocity in all the right places, but also effectively stops unnecessary side-quests. It's so nice to have a technical product guy step in and say "no" to some absurd executive request because he/she is well aware of what such an implementation would look like. They can actually be vanguards and stewards over development personnel in their own way and it seems to go hand in hand with a lot of mutual respect for each other. Always get a kick out of nerding out over possibilities with our technical product dudes.