[mbesto]

> if it's complex: it's going to the smartest person in the room. That has never been the PM.

Yet the PM always has the last say on what goes in the product, NOT the engineer. Funny how that works...

None of your conclusions are consistent with experience (interviewed 900+ SaaS management teams)

[tripledry]

In my average experience, without interviewing management teams - my observation is that the "smartest person in the room" is rarely the one deciding anything.

This also depends on your definition on "smartest".

[mbesto]

> This also depends on your definition on "smartest".

Which the parent conveniently left out a definition of. I sort of ignored that implication and went straight to the point - which is it doesn't matter if the PM is the smartest or not. What matters is who makes the decisions and typically the PM does.