Responsibilities of EM vs. PM vs. EL

This post is just an excuse to steal this Venn diagram, which I find myself Googling for a couple times a month. Here’s the post it came from.

(EM = engineering manager, PM = product manager, EL = engineering lead, or tech lead)

Lara Hogan has a much simpler version, that’s maybe a little too simple to be useful on its own. But the purpose is to use it to drive a conversation so the three people involved can align on who owns what, and then you flesh it out together: