Woah there buddy, you can’t just jump straight into the (non-)solution like that! You skipped the planning refinement! And the planning pre-refinement! And the pre-planning pre-refinement! And we’ll still discuss all of this in the post-planning refinement!
(Yes, every one of these are real, distinct meetings, lasting at minimum one hour but sometimes two or more. EVERY WEEK. Kill me now please? 🥺)
And after all that it is discovered that it was the wrong solution all along because the requirements were poorly specified, so the process must be started all over again
Product Manager: Make a step by step guide of how they think the lightbulb is going to be fixed without explicitly mentioning the broken lightbulb.
Woah there buddy, you can’t just jump straight into the (non-)solution like that! You skipped the planning refinement! And the planning pre-refinement! And the pre-planning pre-refinement! And we’ll still discuss all of this in the post-planning refinement!
(Yes, every one of these are real, distinct meetings, lasting at minimum one hour but sometimes two or more. EVERY WEEK. Kill me now please? 🥺)
And after all that it is discovered that it was the wrong solution all along because the requirements were poorly specified, so the process must be started all over again
The circular justification of a PM’s job, see how much value they add!?
Fuck me am I glad I’m out of the corporate world
I keep trying to escape, but I do need a paycheck so… [rolls up sleeves] back into the fray I go, once more! :-|
And then complain that the light bulb wasn’t fixed in the time that a different team projected on the L1 from 3 years ago.
Exactly. Also, prediction they’re referencing from 3 years ago was to build a lemonade stand.