Yes! I've really bought into this idea recently. Roles are about hiring someone to always think about things from that particular perspective. Eng are capable

Yes! I've really bought into this idea recently. Roles are about hiring someone to always think about things from that particular perspective. Eng are capable of being PMs, but they will never think about everything from the PM point of view, because they are primarily engineers not PMs. Something else I've realized in line with breaking the boundaries of roles is that usually, the most valuable aspects of a person's role are the responsibilities that are not explicitly defined. Hard to explain, but often people provide value in ways that are hard to describe and quantify.