[pinewurst]

I try. :)

More seriously I agree with you about the corrosive and draining effects of useless, stupid process and the worthlessness of management consultant parasites.

At least in my previous business, strategic infrastructure, many developers writing software (and often those designing/choosing hardware platforms) really didn’t know how customer users were actually using products or even seemed to care much. Certainly much earlier in the company’s history there was close connectivity between engineering and users, but they diverged long ago.

I’m certainly not trying to lay down a “class” vibe that PM’s are (hah!) superior beings, as I know enough fool PM’s (usually those risen to VP level :). My point here is that we’re _all_ bozos on this bus and should work better with each other for a better end result for all.