[jhwhite]

I see so much backlash against Project Managers and they're just Outlook Calendars with legs, but this post is basically a love letter to good Project Managers/Release Train Engineers/Delivery Leads, whatever you want to call it.

[econnors]

I think the problem with those is that they lack understanding author mentions:

> But it’s really important that one person on the project has an end-to-end understanding of the whole thing: how it hangs together technically, and what product or business purpose it serves.

The reason people hate specialized roles of scrum masters/delivery leads is that they often lack the E2E understanding and therefor are inadequate owners.

[jhwhite]

Yeah but a good technical PM / whatever will have that understanding. Not a role that just checks milestones and statuses.