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TuringNYC04/02/20255 repliesview on HN

>> literally every hour is accounted for

I saw one company where early-career BA/PMs (often offshore) would sit alongside developers and "keep them company" almost all day via zoom.


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AnimalMuppet04/02/2025

Everyone's complaining about that as a developer, and rightly so. But that can't be easy for the PMs, either, trying to find a way to "add value" when they have no idea what's going on.

I'd expect there to be some "unexpected network outages" regularly in that kind of situation...

latentsea04/02/2025

I would just terminate the call. Like... hell no.

AtheistOfFail04/02/2025

Yep, that would be my own personal hell.

dyauspitr04/03/2025

This is kind of cool as an alternative process to develop apps with. Literally product in a zoom window telling you what to build as you go along. No standups, no refinement, no retros etc. Just a PM that really knows what the customer needs and the developer just building those as you go along.

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MikeTheGreat04/02/2025

Twice the billable hours! /s