I struggle to understand what insight is gained from this article. Can anyone explain how this could be useful?
IMO, the street fighting skill is a bit less known. I worked for a unicorn which had ZERO managers and ZERO Product managers. The engineers had to speak to the users, write the roadmaps, build stuff and report to the founder. I realised this skill was rare among engineers and less talked about. Initially, I titled this "Street fighting engineers", it eventually evolved into this.
Unless these people make their role known, most other people don't see all the firefighting that they do.