PM Tip #14: Great teams have members that defy roles
I was asked recently to define the roles for PMs on my team. Specifically what they should do as compared with the dev and test teams. I flatly refused. The best teams I have worked in and with are those that defy the traditional roles and responsibilities. Putting up artificial walls between extremely closely related disciplines can only be detrimental to getting great team work. Any given set of devs, testers and PMs working on a feature have a different set of skills and experience they bring to the team. Putting in place a structured set of expectations denies this fact. If the developer is more senior and experienced in an area, then you may want them leading more of the design of the feature, not just the implementation. Likewise if the
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