[jack_riminton]

Having been a PM (now developer) the problem I faced was half the time I was having to provide documentation, communications and evidence for my managers. Which is of course fine but when you have HIPPO syndrome (HIghest Paid Person in the Office) who likes to make product decisions then you have to spend most of your time covering your back and managing up

PMs get a lot of stick, sometimes justified, but they're just having to play office politics in order to get stuff done

[bhpm]

Yep. And then you leave and the engineers start complaining they have to play office politics to get things done. :)

[hilux]

PM->Dev is not the typical trajectory, although it's one I'm considering.

How do you feel about the transition?