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What is the biggest drag on your time and effort as a PM?

by shivc on 1/15/25, 5:04 AM with 3 comments

Hi, I'm doing some research for a product, primarily around how technical PMs handle their work life.

Wanted to understand a few things but the key item is understanding the biggest drag on the time of a PM? What do you find yourself doing more and more that shouldn't take as much time as it does?

Also if you have time then these are the other questions:

2. What do you find are the consistent barriers to program/project success you see repeated?

3. If there was one piece of information a product could give you that would make your life easier related to your engineering teams, what would it be?

by GianFabien on 1/15/25, 6:17 AM
```
  #1  Meetings
  #2  Managers who won't put anything into writing and keep changing their minds.
```
The two, in my experience, are highly correlated. As much as I try, I've never been able to enforce the discipline of demanding meeting agendas to be written up and circulated with at least 2 days notice. Maybe its my extreme bad luck, but I've had too many fuzzy thinkers as managers.