> There’s no reason to have a Product Manager define and engineers work The PM isn't supposed to define features in isolation, but crystalize them into consens

> There’s no reason to have a Product Manager define and engineers work The PM isn't supposed to define features in isolation, but crystalize them into consensus between engineers and stakeholders the PM is accountable to. If your PM isn't your peer, the org is setup wrong. Tech leadership should be helping define this, but people don't know what they don't know and so things end up with PM's becoming de-facto "team leads".