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What do you do now? In general, I would consider this trend healthy. Managing your time and your priorities, communicating with stakeholders, etc. are all ski
by lliamander 4y ago
What do you do now?
In general, I would consider this trend healthy. Managing your time and your priorities, communicating with stakeholders, etc. are all skills that all engineers should develop over time, even if just for their own personal work. At the team level, shared processes and priorities should be guided by a tech lead/engineering manager who has the incentives to keep process overhead to a minimum. Ideally, once a process has been put into place there should be very little for a dedicated project manager to do on a day-to-day basis.
Where project management skills shine most is when the work involves multiple teams and the "lowest common manager" is either too high up the org chart to be involved in the details or doesn't exist (because the coordination is between separate companies). This usually manifests as "customer success" or "technical program management" roles, though they could just as easily be called "project management".