Ask HN: What IT skills does a Product Manager need, to be effective and respected?
An acquaintance of mine works as a product manager at a small credit union&#x27;s IT Department in Los Angeles. He says that his engineers don&#x27;t respect him and he feels that they don&#x27;t consider him to be a good product manager.<p>So he contacted me earlier this week and said he wanted to learn to code, primarily so he can be competitive in the coming years and then asked for recommendation on languages.<p>I don&#x27;t think a good Product Manager needs to necessarily learn to code. Not sure what to tell him.<p>Can anyone tell me what skills or software products a person needs to be good with, in order to be an effective Product Manager at an IT Department of a Bank (not a Startup &#x2F; Saas Company, I know a Product Manager there would be quite different).