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the classic PM trying to make the devs wake up from their sleep after hearing sales complaints
Throwing themselves in the way to make themselves a martyr, but then sending the barrage dev’s way x10?
Devs to sales
Title is: "Fixed that other meme" in case anyone else can't decode PM speak
I gave up trying to decode PM-speak when I learned the magical incantation that makes them go away:
Still working on it, no blockers.
Bob Slydell: What you do at Initech is you take the specifications from the customer and bring them down to the software engineers? Tom Smykowski: Yes, yes that's right. Bob Porter: Well then I just have to ask why can't the customers take them directly to the software people? Tom Smykowski: Well, I'll tell you why, because, engineers are not good at dealing with customers. Bob Slydell: So you physically take the specs from the customer? Tom Smykowski: Well... No. My secretary does that, or they're faxed. Bob Porter: So then you must physically bring them to the software people? Tom Smykowski: Well. No. Ah sometimes. Bob Slydell: What would you say you do here
I appreciate that movie so much more now that i work in a very similar office. Its 20x funnier knowing the context
I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? What's wrong with you people?
LOL like we care about the sales bros. No one calls a PM in the middle of the night.
I wish it were like this.
Never seen a pm do this...
Some PMs sharpen the blades of sales too… ouch
I've only worked with two PMs in my 20+ years of development who did anything remotely close to this. One of them is me. And even then I don't think I did it well enough.
"Why can't the customers just take the specs to the engineers?"
Except when the dev is the project manager. *Cries in Jira
All a matter of perspective 🙏🏼
Bonuses should be on the left.
lol.
Eh PMs are the plastic toy bat sales uses to beat us far more often than a buffer. Never enough authority to make real decisions just that constant annoying thump thump on the noggin that doesn’t make things actually go faster but makes sales feel like they are moving things along in a situation where they don’t know how to help move things along.
Don’t know about y’all but PMs on every project and POs are awful and useless
If you manage your projects like you used the camelCase, let's hope gods have mercy on your dev.s
lmao fair point, that casing is painful to look at