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[–] chakan2@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Of the 30-50 PMs I've worked with in my career, I've had 2 actively contribute to the success of my team's work. I've had a handful scuttle projects because they couldn't manage the clients, the rest just kind of hung out and collected a massive paycheck.

The highest performing teams I've been on had the lead developer play that role.

The role is vital, the PM it's self is not.

[–] hightrix@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Completely agreed that the role is vital. For me, my PM is a life saver as my workload is simply too much to also handle PM duties.

That’s said, I also agree that there are many useless PMs. But a good one is worth their weight in gold.

[–] chakan2@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Heh...if your workload is that intense, then you probably have a bad PM.