Comment by unsloppable
2 hours ago
Keeping the backlog funnel full has been nearly a full ltime job for me for about 5 years now. Both pre and post AI. Once you get a team together that knows how to execute keeping the backlog full of well defined and groomed tasks becomes the problem management rarely sees and subsequently doesn't know how to solve.
This.
I recently switched, but at my previous job, the PMs (who would typically do most of this work) got so overworked after AI took hold, that they’ve doubled the PM-to-dev ratios on all (the productive) teams.
I have read about this in other companies as well. Some teams in Google have a PM pr dev, I hear.
Where I work now, sh*t gets done MUCH quicker with AI, and to a higher quality as well.
IMO, if you work with software and can’t get a meaningful boost out of AI, I think you’re doing something wrong.