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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because I have never encountered a project manager who had any clue about what was involved in actually completing the project that he was supposedly managing.
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It is your job to tell the PM what work needs to be done, money you need and the date it will be done. [/b]

Also, because they mostly scheduled status meetings, which a) I hate, because I hate meetings and b) become an impediment to actually making progress in completing the project in question.

[b]In my experience, PM's have to schedule meetings because engineers/workers refuse to talk to each other if a meeting is not scheduled. [/b]

And I apologies if OP is actually good at the job, but I have been scarred by past experience with worse-than-useless project managers.

I can certainly see a place in an organization for good project managers, but they need to have some experience with the types of projects that they manage, rather than spending entire careers as project managers.  [/quote][/quote]

Good PMs will listen when people tell them what needs to be done and how long it will take. Bad ones will say "I don't care, this is the deadline."

Good PMs will facilitate useful communication between people and teams when it is necessary. Bad ones will take up hours of everyone's time with meandering meetings that accomplish nothing.

Like all things, PMs are a tool. When done well they can be incredibly useful. When done poorly, they are just another annoying thing sucking up time and draining morale and productivity.[/quote]

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