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Honest opinion? I’m a tech lead in consulting and have been in product companies. Project managers are completely useless except to shield me from the “make wo
by raw_anon_1111 8mo ago
Honest opinion? I’m a tech lead in consulting and have been in product companies. Project managers are completely useless except to shield me from the “make work” that the PMO organization mandates.
1. I do all of the discovery because I’m the person with the technical background to do it.
2. I do all of the Epic/workstream, story, tasks, dependency breakdowns because again I’m the person with the technical know how to do it
What does the project manager do? They take the transcripts of the sprint review sessions I lead, have AI summarize it and put that in their status updates.
- icedchai 8mo agoI've also worked for "consulting" and "product" companies. The PMs I've worked with at product companies have been competent. They understand the customer's needs. They spec out features and product mockups. They know how to work with developers. The PMs I've worked with in consulting companies are clerical workers. They check a box and copy-paste updates into Jira with little-to-no understanding. It's a completely different world. Part of it is the PMs in product companies are really more product managers, even if their title says otherwise. The PMs in consulting companies don't understand the difference.
- raw_anon_1111 8mo agoThat’s fair. The last time I worked for a product company, I mostly worked with my CTO and the tech guys at our client companies (B2B). I didn’t have to deal with business strategy. In consulting, I deal directly with sales, the “business” and the product. I was the architect dealing a lot with technical strategy back then. We had tech leads that did work under product folks who dealt with the business strategy.