[replyifuagree]

Yep and here we are in 2024 and just this last week I got into a heated discussion with an 'Technical' Program Manager raging about how the deliverables are slipping by three days mostly because he and his up chain are heavily invested in a schedule that is built on hope. Not only are the estimates bad, but the resourcing from the different silos has not happened either, so there is tons of unfinished work just on the work that is known, let alone the unknown unknowns!

Next up he's about to find out his integration timeline is complete and utter bullshit.

[beastcoast]

Time to get a new TPM. Any TPM worth their salt should be doing everything in their power to catalog and mitigate those risks, and communicate them upwards. Lack of communication in both directions and adversarial conversations with engineers is a whole parade of red flags.

That said, Gantt charts absolutely have their place alongside Agile. Our budget and goals are set yearly so inevitably there’s going to be milestones and work back dates to meet, as well as cross-team/org dependencies to track.