Ask HN: Advice? Can't tell if me or bad job
Title is product manager, but this is in title only as I am in the Enterprise Applications space. The real product manager seems to be the business stakeholder, and the delivery manager is the engineering lead.
I really don't see the value I'm adding but they insist on keeping me around - bear in mind I have no salary complaints as I am not cheap and they pay more than what is fair. This is part of the reason why I feel like a spoiled brat complaining.
The problem is that the work just seems so damn trivial. The "business" gives the requirements, usually a document outlining exactly what they need, down to the solution, despite our attempts to tell them to stop. Then I take these "requirements", regurgitate them into "user stories" and the dev team works on them.
Then I play middle man to get questions answered, but usually the DM can do this on their own.
On top of all this our team feels super bloated. I get constantly dinged for not "delegating" work, but truth is there is not much to do beyond what I said above other than responding to about 6 tickets submitted by the biz peeps. There are 3 other analysts on this team.
During stand up, people report what they did yesterday and they are tasks that take about 10 minutes to complete. Sometimes I rub my eyes and shake my head because it feels unreal. It seems like a bad joke that everyone is in on except me.
What should I do? I come from the product side and is this just what IT is like in general? I'm thinking it's time to jump ship, but I just switched out of a job after only a year and I've only been here a year.