You need hard skills to challenge technical folks. There is a kernel of truth here: if you have no idea how technical systems work, your developers could tell you that something relatively easy to build will take a million years. But if your team is flat-out lying to you about how long things will take, you have a more fundamental problem on your hands. Product managers with excellent execution skills inspire their teams to get impactful stuff out the door quickly, and they don’t do it by playing “gotcha” with technical specificities.
