[Aeolun]

Oh certainly. There are a lot of managers that add value. I was talking more about the 5 layers of confusion (product manager, project manager, business manager, business architect, designer) that exist between our customer and the developers. There may be more that I haven’t yet discovered.

We recently spent quite a while on developing a feature only to find out the customer didn’t actually want it.

[shandor]

Ouch. Sounds like your product manager and business manager are indeed not doing much more than warming their seats :)