Senior leaderOrganizational coordination work resists elimination
7Oct 31 12:07 PM · 12d ago · 1 comment · 1 source · development 7 of 7
A manager at a large company noted that while some PM functions could be distributed, the coordination, escalation, and stakeholder management roles—particularly for technical program managers—remain valuable because executives respond to human judgment and persistence in ways they do not to automated systems.
“if you remove product managers, other folks in the company will need to do the jobs product managers would do…A director will ignore the message sent by an AI bot, but will definitely not ignore a message to sent to them by a TPM with management in email.”
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if you remove product managers, other folks in the company will need to do the jobs product managers would do. everyone doing a subset of that work.I thought TPMs were useless, but on a large project, you need somebody nagging everyone and sending updates to senior leadership..A director will ignore the message sent by an AI bot, but will…