What’s one thing you wish PMs stopped doing?

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Definitely solutioning.

An even bigger problem is employers advertising openings for PM positions with a long list of technical skills which, by definition is a technical PM (who is typically part of a team who reports to a PM) or an engineer with PM skills.

Combining job duties under the term “project manager” is misguided because a seasoned PM can deliver any project with a good team.

They should be technology agnostic.

Asking a PM to deeply know all the modules of ServiceNow, SAP, Epic, etc., is essentially asking a PM to tell professional solution engineers how to do their job.

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At my old company they laid off half of the PMs and they're now only hiring developers who also have functional knowledge or end user experience of the application.

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AGREED.

Trying to become engineers.

I dont see an issue with this if they develop the necessary skills first

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