Sorry, but sitting with your arms folded isn't contributing
(allcontributors.org)
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (10)
sorted by:
Product Manager: 100% useful. having a layer between engineering and the stakeholders allows the engineers to actually focus on their work. I know the product managers I work with never get a break, I have the utmost respect for them.
Researcher: this really should be lumped in with product manager. if there needs to be two product managers, so be it, but this doesn't deserve its own position.
Designer: I assume this is short for ux designer. these can be very useful on certain projects, but lightweight projects don't need them.
Contributor: anyone who has this as their job title is definitely not doing anything useful.
Maintainer: should be lumped in with developer. there's no reason to have this as a separate job from developer or engineer.
Developer: without this position, nothing gets built.
I had a PMP at one point. Product management definitely can be a significant asset. If done correctly.
Most of the time in my experience it's a fail upward position who spends more time crying at you about why one of the marks on the online training spreadsheet is red instead of listening to the people telling him to buy new parts instead of refurbished crap from overseas so that the damn thing can actually run for two weeks in a row without blowing up.