I feel, There's no perfect balance between product managers and engineers, and it's better to accept this than keep searching for one.
The core issue is straightforward: product managers need speed to capture market opportunities, while engineers need stability to maintain reliable systems. These goals naturally conflict. When you move fast, technical debt builds up and eventually slows down future work. When you focus on maintaining stability, you miss deadlines and market windows.
Companies often look for people who can deliver great solutions quickly, hoping to solve this problem. But this misses the point. The best teams don't try to eliminate the tension—they make it visible and manage it deliberately. They track technical debt the same way they'd track financial debt: they decide consciously when to take it on, communicate those decisions clearly, and schedule specific time to address it later.
The reality is that this friction can be reduced through good communication and planning, but it will never disappear completely. Teams will always swing between periods of fast delivery and periods of cleanup and stabilization. The difference between good and struggling teams isn't whether this happens—it's whether they manage it intentionally or just react to whatever problem becomes urgent.
Accepting that the tradeoff exists, making it explicit in planning discussions, and being honest about the consequences of each choice leads to better outcomes than pretending perfect harmony is possible.
PMF in tech and beverages is different.
here's what I have noticed;
>In tech, PMF is when the engagement spikes, downloads increase, and no. of users increases
>In beverages, it’s when your website cannot fulfill orders, and even your QCom can't
In beverages, PMF doesn’t look like what you read in startup blogs. It is a reorder, and not just a metric. It comes from shelves being out of stock, not retention dashboards.
For us at @DrinkQuenzy ,
PMF wasn’t a moment or something we were numerically able to track, but it definitely started looking like a pattern.
When people started reordering before we restocked.
That being said, I think we are a far way from hitting the PMF that we want to see, but consumer love is the biggest metric we tracked and still do.
There is one health advice you will never hear from anyone. You can go to gym and build muscles, you can train to run and become a marathoner , you can get your 4ltr of water everyday, you can get your 7hrs of sleep , you can get all the superfoods and supplements.
But if you don’t learn to deal the chaos in your head and bullshit people around you, you’re still going to be unhealthy.
You can’t change the people around you. But you can change the people around you.
Ignoring some people for your mental health is not a weakness. It is your superpower.
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