Man, this tpm is bs, I am from SCPT and when JD announced layoffs they changed their roles from TPM to product management and product Managers...fine you changed your role, that means you gonna have to do the pm job right... nope that's where they dodged the asks from engineering and behaved like typical tpm...their entire org needs to be sacked across all over the Nike...period...someone wrote about a miracle of how they pulled it through last time, and this is the miracle there they pulled....it's a hoax
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@ab Exactly the toxic culture I was talking about. Thanks for the demonstration!
@aa Pretty sure this was written by a TPM… lol
I'm an engineer and TPMs I delt with seriously helped our team. I dealt with some bad eggs in the past, but generally they helped us organize, communicate clearly outwards, handled a lot of upward communication, and helped hold team structures. Not to mention these are people too. I'll never understand the culture of villification of TPMs in the broad sense. Chill out, these are coworkers not enemies.
I started at Nike as an engineer more than a decade ago, and eventually rolled into a TPM job when they became a thing. Because of my technical background, I got my hands dirty along with the team. In other words, if there was a task that I could handle to lighten my team's load, I created a story and did the work myself. I did all of the usual TPM work in terms of road-mapping, updating JIRA, etc., and I met with my business partners every week to understand their changing requirements. I measured our team's success based on satisfaction from the customer and adoption rate of the internal products we created, which is what we're supposed to do. Many people told me I was "the best TPM at Nike" because of these actions, but it didn't save me from getting laid off when they whacked my org a few weeks ago.
When I had my exit call, I asked about why I wasn't just moved over to one of the ten TPM roles that were open on the jobs board, and I was told I should apply for them right away. I did, but got rejection emails... probably because they weren't real and this layoff/reorg was about to happen. So, at this point, I've turned my attention away from Nike. I'm only on this site because I've had a bunch of my former peers text me about how they are getting laid off as well.
Anyway, my point is that not all TPMs su-ked (in my biased opinion). There are some gems that Nike is losing, both in TPM and on the engineering side. Sadly, the people that are making the decisions don't really know who each individual is or how good they perform. From what I can tell, each layoff is a check box on a spreadsheet.
Product Management is a team effort. If it isn’t optimal it’s because the team as a whole failed. With Engg acting like juvenile control freaks, no wonder it’s been failing at this company.
Wow- so hateful — one day look in mirror— would you want someone to say that about you or your role, team, org? Good gosh—be human and emphatic for once.
I am not saying they are waste of money but I do see a lot of TPM not doing what they are expected as per their job description, they are just there to create epic, road map, they have zero knowledge of the technical product and what their stakeholders need
God I hope so.
True. This Org does not add any real value for Nike.
Aren't they always impacted? Tell me of a layoff where they were spared?
That’s an Org created to waste Nike’s money. Their work was easily handled by other team members before the Org was created. Then they hired way too much and became such a bloated org. They pulled some strings and pulled off a miracle last year by getting spared from layoffs. Hope that mistake is not repeated this time.