Beeing a Product Manager myself I agree there can be a risk. But there are other situations that demand alot of work like I am now doing: The product is customer facing and has been developed for years with marginal success. Management expects now a new direction backed by insighths and data.
Drawing multiple scenarios of new strategies, talking to customers, setting up market research and getting sometimes pushed back hard is a fulltime job. And I didn’t even get started about traveling globally to meet customers and go to conferences. I just barely can keep up on the side with new technology and trends.
A good PM should be able to do this grindwork and get as much as possible insights to bring it to engineers and bring engineers closer to customers.
I think one doesn’t need multiple PMs and especially not PO to only groom backlogs, here I agree with you. But there is alot of work in dealing with uncertainty, ideas, strategies and put onto paper to have good discussions/discovery.
Drawing multiple scenarios of new strategies, talking to customers, setting up market research and getting sometimes pushed back hard is a fulltime job. And I didn’t even get started about traveling globally to meet customers and go to conferences. I just barely can keep up on the side with new technology and trends.
A good PM should be able to do this grindwork and get as much as possible insights to bring it to engineers and bring engineers closer to customers.
I think one doesn’t need multiple PMs and especially not PO to only groom backlogs, here I agree with you. But there is alot of work in dealing with uncertainty, ideas, strategies and put onto paper to have good discussions/discovery.