What's with all the project managers at Dell that only schedule calls, mute themselves, and do little else.
More importantly, how can I become one?
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"I was at Dell what felt like forever and the PM's I encountered that covered North America, I think based in Panama, were any good."
Maybe the lack of clarity was the disconnect.
I was at Dell what felt like forever and the PM's I encountered that covered North America, I think based in Panama, were any good. EMEA and APAC were dreadful and passed everything over to the account team. Really no point to them at all, all they did was annoy you about a GCP SKU.
As a senior IS and later on SA I found that most of the remote PMs from Cairo were particularly bad. They never seemed to understand the correct order to do tasks in or how long tasks could take. Also they had no idea of the geography of the UK not taking into account travel times between customer sites.
I'm glad this seems to be a prevailing sentiment within the company. I've asked my manager for a package if one becomes available. I've had 4-5 managers in the last 4-5 years and somehow I've found myself in a PM role when I've not once suggested that's something I wanted to become.
If you're not inventing blockers or adding unnecessarily verbose stories to Jira then you're not doing your job.
We use to call product managers spreadsheet jockeys. Some PM’s are good and some are bad. It seems that PM’s and test technicians are always easy targets when layoffs are announced. Yeah, I would avoid becoming a product manager because there’s always somebody younger who would do that job for less money. Older PM’s have targets on their backs.
As a customer who is a former employee. I wished the off shore clueless PMs would go on mute instead of talking endless while being wrong and just making cr-p up.
I actually feel sorry for the account team that has to sit there and listen to the clueless PM embarrass what’s left of the Dell reputation.
I respect the ones that go on mute more than the ones who keep creating bullsh-t compliance requirements for everyone else. With downsizing we’re all overworked. Cut the sh-t already
The latest effort is nothing more than rearranging the deck chairs with Agile Scrum at Scale titles. NVA.
thanks Jira align
Schedule jockeys