Anonymous wrote:I really like our team's project manager. I hear that she's stressed out and frustrated and wish her well. Our team gets along, we have much trust in each other and flexibility, worked together for years.

So why am I not delivering as the PM asks? Because mine is mommy-track job. I work from home juggling work obligations and little kids with insufficient childcare. My priority is to meet all the competing responsibilities well enough - at a "good enough" level. When there's situation at work that needs my attention, I set everything aside to come through for the team at an A level. But because of competing priorities juggling work/family, I am not able to do A-level work as the standard. I know that B is good enough and that's what I aim for. And to get me to do A work most of the time, I'd need a big raise to outsource some of my other responsibilities.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

It is your job to tell the PM what work needs to be done, money you need and the date it will be done.

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.

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

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.

Anonymous wrote:I’m now in the field and I notice so much push back. Why are people not accepting of the efforts the project manager and the project management team put into helping meet deadlines and lessen the issues for not delivering on time.

It is your job to tell the PM what work needs to be done, money you need and the date it will be done.

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

Anonymous wrote: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.

It is your job to tell the PM what work needs to be done, money you need and the date it will be done.

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.

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

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.

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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.