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The author is right, but doesn't seem to mention that this could be solved, at least in theory, with better project management. Devs focusing on the wrong thing
by kmoser 3y ago
The author is right, but doesn't seem to mention that this could be solved, at least in theory, with better project management. Devs focusing on the wrong thing? Project manager should be on it. Scope creep? Project manager should be on it. Client asking for irrelevant features? Project manager should be on it.
Replace those devs with ones who are focused on the right things? Great, but you still have the other problems to deal with (scope creep, uninformed clients), not to mention a host of other things that can derail a project, such as poor communication.
tl;dr Most projects are poorly managed. Poorly managed projects tend to fail.
- steveBK123 3y agoI think the move from project management to "product management" really exacerbated this. The type of people that gravitate towards "product" vs "project" management is one thing. Further, project managers tend to focus on delivering the product stakeholders have asked for on time and on budget. Product managers however I find are frequently searching for a new expanded scope of stakeholders to brag they're solutioneering to. I find them more often in the "solutions looking for problems" business than I find developers, or at least developers are only doing it on a micro-scale, while product managers will take an entire team/org on 6 month fruitless missions to build software destined for the dustbin.
- mordae 3y agoThe moment project manager stops taking care of minutes, meeting agenda, getting all the stakeholders in the same meeting and ensuring all issues have an assignee and instead starts taking interest in the specifics of the project, I bail.