[grahamm]

Seems to be the same story over and over. I am also a senior dev who was was taken in as tech lead which on day one turned in to scrum master but told to keep it light and develop at the same time. Then the team grew and the role became team lead, responsible for organising and team, time lines, deliverabes and recruitment, but I am not a project manager, we don't hire project managers, still need to code as well (fat chance). You get to hate it and start to envy the junior and mid level Devs.

[mind-blight]

This is exactly my experience. Senior management spent 2 years convinced that 1) we didn't need project managers, and 2) tech leads weren't just glorified project managers besides all of the evidence to the contrary. The messaging was 'we're working out the kinks - it shouldn't take that much time is our processes are being implemented correctly'. I bought in for about 3 months before it became pretty clear that coordinating stakeholders and balancing business and technical requirements was a full-time job. The role became a mess that burned out anyone in it