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You could try only accepting work from product managers. If someone wants something they need to convince a PM that it’s more important than whatever the PM cur
by foxbarrington 4y ago
You could try only accepting work from product managers. If someone wants something they need to convince a PM that it’s more important than whatever the PM currently has in development. Product is the “what” and engineering is the “how”
- carlivar 4y agoI agree, but that just changes the role and leaves the potential problem. The PM might be weak and not defending the existing backlog.
- SilverBirch 4y agoIn reality that's what happens - the advice in this twitter thread is about the PM role, not engineering manager. It's still ridiculous though, because you still end up having phone calls with the CTO and CEO to explain why some arsehole is complaining directly to them about their pet project not getting prioritized, including having to explain to them that there is a process, which they designed, for us to make these decisions and that phoning me up isn't a part of that process.