[kabdib]

We had three types of PMs:

- Middle management mover-and-shaker. Most recent technical contribution to a product: Some time in the last ice-age. Super power: secret meetings that lasted for hours, discussing how much all the devs were late, and who to blame.

- Underflunky. Ran daily stand-ups to gather status. Last technical contribution to a product: Never. Perpetually terrified. Super-power: "Since we need this done by the end of today, let's have a bunch of meetings about it. Are you available for an hour at 10, 2 and 5?"

- Fantastically technical PM. Last technical contribution to a product: Helped debug a gnarly problem over in the other building about ten minutes ago. Super-power: Writing intelligent specs that devs understood and that actually described shit that would work. Achilles heel: Incredibly over-worked and a burnout in five months.

We had one or two of the latter PMs on the last project I was on. They were great; every other PM did negative work.

I did get our underflunky PM to start calling our scrum meetings "Status".