> The past two years created a new type of hype: PMs. um, no. In the 1990s, it was widely recognized that PMs "pay for themselves" at around 6-10 engineers. Ob

> The past two years created a new type of hype: PMs. um, no. In the 1990s, it was widely recognized that PMs "pay for themselves" at around 6-10 engineers. Obviously, the ratio depends on the kind of work, but PMs are generally much faster and better at human-human communication and decision-making, where engineers (generally) get bogged-down with minutiae and struggle to tell a business-relevant narrative, to the right people, at the right time and in a way to get better decisions made. The extreme example: https://lettersofnote.com/2009/10/27/the-result-would-be-a-catastrophe/ https://lettersofnote.com/2009/10/27/the-result-would-be-a-c... (this "should" have been enough, and it wasn't - which is why it's a good example)