be an enabler. make your eng peers do uninterrupted work, reduce meetings, cut the crap out of the corporate process. This is not to say keep them in the dark

be an enabler. make your eng peers do uninterrupted work, reduce meetings, cut the crap out of the corporate process. This is not to say keep them in the dark about what is going on, but don't try to schedule a "sync" meetings, ever :) Another thing that me and my PM peer did was, we had direct communication line. he could ping me anytime, and i could ping him anytime. We came up with ideas at odd hours that ended up making a good amount of revenue increase, but we also respected each other's time. I used him to get myself pure work time when people were asking for updates, and he used me to prototype many of these ideas. it worked out really well for both of us.