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The PM's job is to clarify whatever questions the engineering team might have about the details of how the user will interact with the system. She has to have i
by BadassFractal 15y ago
The PM's job is to clarify whatever questions the engineering team might have about the details of how the user will interact with the system. She has to have it all figured out to be able to pull her weight on that kind of engineer-heavy development team.
Generally speaking it's difficult for everybody on the team to know everything about the little details, and it's good to have someone with that picture in mind.
I hear that Pivotal Labs for example always require there to be an on-call PM when they work on their contracts, to immediately unblock progress.
- neutronicus 15y agoWhere I worked before I went back into academia, the title "Project Manager" referred to someone whose main job was running interference between engineers and upper management. She was always coming up with answers to questions about how long things would take, etc. so I wouldn't have to and prompting me for various answers that upper management actually cares about. Definitely helped me get things done. That place was emphatically not Silicon Valley, though, so it makes perfect sense to me that the two positions share little more than a title and not coding.
- mattmanser 15y agoI'd just like to point out to both you and the parent mmaunder said Program manager/product manager, not Project Manager. But if he means a PM, then fair enough. Anyone who thinks a good PM isn't worth their weight in gold is seriously la-la and probably hasn't worked with one.