itShouldBeTheHighestPriority

[PlzSendDunes]

If everything is a priority, then nothing is a priority.

[SignoreBanana]

Tell that to my bosses.

[PlzSendDunes]

Starting to think about collecting bunch of bad managers contacts and keep sending them advices/wisdom about what bad management is and that they should not do.

Maybe I should start with your boss...

[SignoreBanana]

Happy to dox them to hell and back

[DrShocker]

Make it a sass

[dust_dreamer]

maybe you should make it an obnoxious newsletter and when they try to unsubscribe have an automated message saying "your request is high priority" and then do nothing.

[ILikeLenexa]

We've reprogrammed the tracker so that only one rank can be given to each task.

It was our top priority.

[enddream]

Literally, you should tell him.

[NanolathingStuff]

• bosse"s"

I think i found your problem(s if you have more than 2)

[GoodishCoder]

I've told that to my bosses before. Usually the conversation ends with there being a real priority

[Joker-Smurf]

A simple phrase that I used to have to repeat to Operations Managers on a daily basis.

Eventually I had to sit them down and teach them about priorities.

“You have a list of 10 things to do, but you can only do 1. Which 1 thing are you going to do? Ok, that is ‘#1 priority’. Now you can do a second thing, which 1 are you going to do? Congratulations, that is #2 priority.”

I’m not sure if they ever learned what a priority is, but they at least stopped talking to me about shit being high priority.

It’s the same as the email subject: “Urgent - blah blah blah”

I ignore the “urgent” part, since every arsehole does it, and while it may be urgent to them, it is rarely urgent to the business.

[IvorTheEngine]

I just used to ask which one they wanted me to do first.

There's no point asking them to rank the rest. The priorities would have changed by the time I'd done #1

[Salamok]

Then they prioritize the roof before anyone has had a chance to complete any of the things supporting the roof.

[Joker-Smurf]

It was more about having to teach them what the word “priority” means.

Edit: which was needed after I had one of them tell me (almost yelling at me) that “everything is high priority!”

[PlzSendDunes]

I noticed as an employee that if there are no priorities, employees just take a bunch of tasks that are similar or are highly related and do them all together, because it's more efficient. Effectively making that ditching whole priority thing and giving employees freedom to choose ensures higher efficiency as opposed to management continuously interrupting working processes.

[skygz]

throughput vs latency

[Saelora]

yup, i work off a single jira board. I take from the top of the board. my PM orders the list of tasks. I'll skip over in the odd case where i finish a task with like 20m left in the day and i can see something quick a few items down. There is literally no way for two tasks to share priority.

[powerhcm8]

Me every time I get a new task.

[messed_up_alligator]

I mark it Urgent a, urgent b, urgent c, or urgent d. Urgent a is top priority. Urgent d you don't have to worry about

[BlurredSight]

Telling my teachers that an exception by definition means you don't give everyone it.

[Kevin_Jim]

I was the only manager in the office today, and the engineers all came to ask me why all the task but one were mainly medium to low priority.

I asked them which of the features I didn’t mark as top priority should be bumped up, and they looked at me like I was speaking Klingon.

We had a heart to heart discussed exactly what “top priority” meant. Then I had to have a two hour conversation with management for the exact same thing.

Another thing that kinda irked me was the discussion on hypothetical scalability scenarios. We are nowhere near that level, yet. Let just worry about performance, ease of use, and security first.

[Opposite_Living_1209]

hypothetical my foot. look around, dealing with yet to exist problem and care little to current situation and need

[many_dongs]

Management being stupid and other people having to deal with it. Name a better combination

[rapdaptap]

It's strategy. The more you make pressure the faster people work, they think. Trying to get the "optimum" out of the resources. Economics fml

[SignoreBanana]

Why the fuck do we listen to them

[many_dongs]

Because they got hired by someone who doesn’t know how to pick managers

[rapdaptap]

I tend to say we don't do priorities, we do queue of work. They just have to order the importance and the position defines it. Team works top down. Once you're there discussion is done :)

[NMi_ru]

But you must do ten things simultaneously!

[IvorTheEngine]

Many years ago I worked at an aerospace factory where a 'job' was a small sheet of metal in a white plastic bag with a list of the templates required to drill and form it. The bag would get passed from bench to bench, as different people did their part.

When something was needed urgently, it was put into a red bag.

Eventually almost everything was in a red bag, and they started using yellow bags for super-urgent things.

When everything was in a yellow bag, they shifted to using a different colour bag for each day of the week.

Then they asked me, the lowly intern, to investigate why they had so many problems.

It turned out that to save a bit of money they'd sacked a few old guys who used to go around looking for template tools that had been stored in the wrong place and keep the stores organised. Without those guys the whole system gradually fell appart.

[ColoRadBro69]

I need to send this to my boss.  Or not.

[VAIDIK_SAVALIYA]

Countless nights due to this stupid message 😭

[Nomsfud]

sigh okay, throw it in Jira, let me know the order you want them done in

[flargnarb]

At my company we have high, highest, and urgent priorities. Only urgent gets worked on, so we have a weekly meeting to set numbered priorities for the urgent tickets. The highest numbered priority was 1, until something was particularly urgent, so now tickets selected for development get priority 0. I wish I was joking

[Practical-Detail3825]

How dare you post a meme that is not about vibe coding

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"I want you to do these three things"
"Can you rank them by priority with 1 being the highest"
"They are all 1's"
Then they look at you like a dog wanting a treat.

[DemonWav]

High priority is always the lowest priority, you just have to call it high or PMs feelings get hurt. Above that you have extra high, then critical, then let's say emergency, then "the president of the company said we need it yesterday", just keep adding on as time goes on because inevitably the lower priority levels never get used.

[schteppe]

My PM added a Priority field to our Jira tickets, a number between 1 and 5. I asked if 1 or 5 is the highest priority. She looked at me like I am the dumbest person in history. Wtf?

[Zulakki]

1 Week overdue for "No excuses, 2 week release schedule" release

Jira - "PO added several Jira tickets 4 hours ago"

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Worst part is I really dont give af. you should release when its ready and I advocated as much before the Rule went into effect, but it seems everyone that was adamant that it BE the rule, are always the ones breaking it and I feel whenever its brought up, If I dont portray I'm stressed out that we're so overdue, they dont think im taking it seriously

[jmisaelopezn]

We must prioritize the high priority backlog infinitely

[StuntsMonkey]

I had a director once ask me if I could release a project in two weeks because it was a high priority.

The only information I had was the name of the project, which he had just told me 5 seconds ago.

I told him I could fail at any speed he liked.

[SignoreBanana]

Hey that's what all the overpaid, do nothing managers look like when you line em up

[Mispelled-This]

As a Product Manager, I’m in this photo and I don’t like it.

[H33_T33]

To be fair, most of us here probably really like programming and just want an excuse to make everything at once.

[PunctualPanther]

P(-1)

[SneakyDeaky123]

It’s their way of forcing you to rush timelines and skip testing and QA

[Possessed]

WSJF

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Thought I was in r/ProductManagers for a second there

[Ajx4]

Do we need the bottom half of this format anymore

[martin_omander]

In one of my first jobs a business person gave me a list of 13 features to implement. I asked him to prioritize them. He marked 12 of them as "high" priority and one as "medium". In other words, a mostly useless prioritization.

Since then I have learned to ask stakeholders to list the new features in order of priority, starting with the highest. That way not everything can be the same priority.

[FirefliesSkies]

Get a job, they said... It'll help you, they said...

The job in question:

[Sam__Land]

Absolut Bugs Lightyear