I used to work for (more accurately at since I was a contractor) a large cable company whose name rhymes with “bombast”. Most of the people in charge of the projects I was working on (usually vice-presidents, a thoroughly overblown title there since there were hundreds of vice-presidents) were hopelessly technically incompetent and/or bordering on clinically insane. For a refreshing change of pace, I occasionally had bosses who were just soulless and amoral. None of them lasted more than a few months before they were suddenly and without warning disappeared. One day you would come in to work and their office was emptied out and they were never mentioned ever again. I’d like to think they were just fired and escorted out, but I would not be surprised to find they were executed and rendered down for the fats they contained.
PM expert mode challenge: recall the last thing you asked for
Procrastination ALWAYS paid off for me.
PM = Project Manager?
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Yes PM is Project Manager
That’s how read it.
Prime Minister? Prime meridian? Protocol maintainer?
Prostate Manipulator
Pelican Modalizer
Project Mangler
Procrastinative Mindset.
Pure Mindset
Project Molester.
Pikachu Mammogram
Private message
Penis Molester
Pokémon master
I wish my pokemon master would give me tasks.
Personal Masseuse
President Messiah
All of the above
Preventative maintenance? Post moderator? Pickup mailman?
Percussive Maintenance?
Pernicious Muffler?
Definitely not Product Manager
Protomolecule
Panicky Merman
Penis Massager
You got a laugh outta me with this one. Heres your upvote
My PM doesn’t tell me to do anything. Their job is to prioritize things on the backlog and give status updates. Very, very rarely do they tell me that whatever I’m working on no longer needs to be done at all.
Generally speaking, if I do get an interruption, it’s from the person above the Project Manager. And they’re more of the “shit hit the fan” variety of problems that need to be resolved.
My PMs are all about time allocation… yet they fail to understand what research is.
Pm: How long until you finish designing and implementing this thing?
Me: I cant put a time on it, weve never done this before and have no points of reference. So i could figure it out today or a month from today…i cant give you a time because its bever been implemented.
PM: Sighs in dissapproval… ill just say 5 business days. Hows that.
Me: if we are just making up numbers, sure
I used to tell my bosses that everything would take three months. I would then ensure that everything took three months, usually by fucking off for two and a half months and then blasting something out in the last two weeks.
Sounds like you got someone with experience in hardware. They’re all about just shitting a date on paper.
The key to good PMs seems to be that they will make up the fake schedule without even talking to you. The schedule will be made up either way, so if they can not bother me that’s a ok.
My good PMs understood that their role was to attend meetings and create a buffer between myself (who understood what had to be done and was doing most of the work) and the higher-ups. The awful PMs were the ones who thought they were running the show and driving everything.
Uh oh. Now you’re expected to be done in 5 days.
Isn’t that what story points are for? :p
just don’t you dare ever proactively prevent a problem
always gotta spend 5x on the current dumpster fire
Which is when I just do it I tell them afterward. I build it into my estimates so it doesn’t put us behind.
There are still a few cans that get kicked down the road though, for various reasons.
i love i told you so too much
it’s usually the customers exacting fault
