[iovrthoughtthis]

What about maintaining an environment where the team felt safe to communicate to the pm that there was something wrong?

And for the pm to feel safe enough to communicate to you something is wrong.

This feels like a Taylorism. Knowledge work isn’t factory work.

I totally understand keeping tabs on delivery speed to enable the team to benchmark themselves but the act of identifying a problem from that (if there is one) should be the teams responsibility imo.

As a manager, my job is to enable other people to do their job the best they can.