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They think it’s their micromanagement that creates productivity. Sometimes it’s incentivized by upper management. The more noise they make the better they seem. So for example, a micromanaging PM will demand that all communication go through them. It can certainly help, but oftentimes adding a third person to a loop complicates things, not helps. Now there are three schedules to align! But the PM has to seem busy and productive so it’s better for them to be involved when it comes to optics, productivity be damned.

And god help you if your product is technical and your PM isn’t technical or knowledgeable enough. Conversations get fun when the PM says something wrong and you’re now trying to correct them “respectfully” in front of customers.