for the engineers out there... all the pms ive worked with seem to bring value to the dev teams they are on in different ways. want to hear others experiences. what are the qualities you look for when a new pm is joining your prod dev team? what skills do product manager need to ensure the culture of the team is positive? are there specfic roles or value you think an awesome pm must provide in order for the team to be succesful? what is the primary role of the pm on your dev teams? #productmanager
Mostly looking for PM to go away
Cause you don’t see any value they bring?
Too many meetings
Knowing that they aren't drill sergeants. Them anticipating blockers and dependencies and proactively working to resolve before it's an issue. When they feel like they are part of the team and not just a sometimes representative of the business. Not a lunatic. Generally competent.
Understands engineering and handles our emails for us to other teams (unless it's super technical). Seriously I want to focus on the fucking code, not spend all day sending emails to 10 people who don't have technical knowledge who don't know what the fuck they want.
Sounds like a fucking nightmare. Never had that before. Team should own cross collaboration to execute on projects which shouldn’t fall outside of the tech work that needs to done
Someone that can run interference for the team and handle questions unrelated to what the engineers are actively working on. Someone that can explain why a feature is prioritized the way it is and why a priority has changed. Someone that has vetted ideas that drive revenue. Someone not afraid to say “no” to most asks of the team.
Some of the guys on my current team, don’t put in the effort on technical design which has resulted in our pm writing all these discovery tickets or scheduling syncs with BE N FE. Stories that shouldn’t be taking long seem to take forever. Don’t know how to fix it
Humility. You are a program manager, not my manager and certainly not CEO of the company. So please, be ground to earth, humble and try to be a good team player.
I love good PMs. They listen, they can articulate customer need, they collaborate with eng instead of driving, they stay organized and keep the project organized, they have an opinion but are willing to change it in the face of data. At Adobe I have worked with some great ones and I think that’s how I have been able to achieve much and why I’m not interested in leaving even for more TC.
This is great. I have a hard time distinguish between scrum master vs product manager owning a lot of project organization . Thoughts?
PMs are so much more though. They are the voice of the customer being able to combine both hard data and personal interactions to figure out what the customer really wants. I go to PM over marketing to figure out customers any day
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Avoid teams with only Chinese or Indians especially with a Chinese/Indian manager
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Developers like when PMs understand how long it takes to build things
Is it reasonable for the pm to not know? 2 of the pms I’ve worked with weren’t technical so he relied on the team to work through estimates. I would’ve been more mad had he assumed the effort?
It's not so much about who as it is about not making unreasonable requests