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I once had a project manager say in a meeting, "It's my job to play devil's advocate right now." I immediately explained to him that, no, his job was to coordi
by failrate 9y ago
I once had a project manager say in a meeting, "It's my job to play devil's advocate right now." I immediately explained to him that, no, his job was to coordinate our time and resources. Devil's advocate was for the requirements engineer.
- ljf 9y agoVery true - but I wonder if it that case the requirements engineer was failing to do that? Or the company was one where they regularly didn't challenge the engineer to explicitly and publicly take that role?
- failrate 9y agoNo, the re is great. It's the pm who causes the most bikeshedding.
- walshemj 9y agoIf its the PM's job to deliver their project it is absolutely their job eg stop the requirements being bikeshedded.
- adrianmonk 9y agoMaybe with more context I'd have enough information to agree with you, but with the info I actually have, I can't say it wasn't their job to play devil's advocate. Maybe they had good reason to be skeptical of the direction things were going and needed to ask enough questions to be sure it was right in order to best represent the concerns related to their role on the team.