Andrew Hogg's dashboard

I've just started using PT with a team of three engineers and myself (the product manager). Whats painfully obvious is that the model that PT has followed is that the PM is very technical and can create "tasks" (Features) based on Stories (not in PT). I prefer a model where the PM, who acts as the customer advocate, creates Stories and then the engineers create their own personal tasks from the Stories - they are the only ones who know what order they want to do things in and what granularity they want to break their own tasks into. Agile is about trusting your engineers to do what works for them and as a result do what works for the project as a whole. Asking the PM to create the granular tasks for each engineer goes in direct opposition to this model. To get over this limitation in an otherwise great tool we have decided to use "Releases" as stories and Features as tasks, where the PM enters the "Release" and then the engineers create their own features, all stacked up behind the Release.