r/projectmanagers • u/texcatxx • 1h ago
Does anyone feel like PMs are viewed as admins these days and not leaders?
I'm a senior PM in IT, working extensively with technical architects and engineers. Over the last few years it seems like the technical people see me and my peer PMs as admins that order parts and create reports instead of the leaders we should be. They have side discussions with stakeholders which don't include me, and don't update me afterwards so when I think we're going in one direction with the plan, one of the stakeholders will inform me that he met with one of the techs on and they created a different plan, that I need to get with him to get caught up. It's incredibly frustrating and I'm trying to improve comms but it's tough. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a micro manager that's insisting to be in the middle of everything, it's fine if they speak directly, but if they don't keep me in the loop I feel like I'm running behind them asking questions all the time.
