It works well under the original intent, as someone who handles things that are orthogonal to development, like gathering information from different departments

It works well under the original intent, as someone who handles things that are orthogonal to development, like gathering information from different departments to answer a question, getting things through approvals, managing feature requests, preparing reports, fending off last minute changes, etc. it doesn’t work when it’s just someone doing business-school project management with story points and 30 minute daily sit-downs