For thousands of sprints, the question has haunted (or at least intrigued) people working in product: How technical do you really need to be? From the early days of Microsoft, where you couldn't be a PM unless you coded, to Amazon, which puts MBAs above Computer Science majors, there's no clear sense of the right pedigree for product people.
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