Work long enough in one role and every other role starts to feel unnecessary. You start to learn what creates success for you personally, and expanding that wil

Work long enough in one role and every other role starts to feel unnecessary. You start to learn what creates success for you personally, and expanding that will inevitably awkwardly slam you into other people who are now seemingly blocking you. Enter this feeling of “PMs are useless, just let me do it”. I can guarantee that if you start being responsible for actual PM work for an extended period of time, you will start drafting your article about “they ask us to do too much, we need time to focus” Working with other humans at scale is inherently difficult, we all take turns being the solution, and we all take turns being the problem. Such is life.