Camille Fournier
Camille Fournier is the author of The Manager’s Path, which many consider the definitive guide for navigating one’s career path in tech. Camille was previously the CTO of Rent the Runway, VP of Technology at Goldman Sachs, Head of Platform Engineering at Two Sigma, and Global Head of Engineering and Architecture at JPMorgan Chase. She is about to release new newest book, Platform Engineering: A Guide for Technical, Product, and People Leaders.
Career (separate track) Skills
Product managers should proactively share credit and presentation duties to foster a respectful and collaborative relationship with their engineering teams.
"Hoarding credit. PMs, they tend to be the front-facing person for initiative. Engineers sometimes think that they don't get the credit for their work because the PM takes all the glory and all the cre..."
Operating Cadence & Communication Skills
Effective stakeholder management involves knowing when to step out of the communication loop to avoid becoming a bottleneck or causing information loss through a 'telephone game.'
"So if you are being asked questions that you cannot answer because you just don't know or because that's something that involves a level of technical detail that only the engineers have that you just..."