Do you all find that your planned work is often deprioritized, reprioritized, or cancelled where you all work? Or is my company just really bad at planning? For context, we’re an established company, not a startup.

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I've been at my company just shy of a year. The projects that were discussed during the interview process completely changed by the time I was onboarded a month later. And since then, the projects, priorities, and work have been changed and shifted so many times by senior leadership, I can barely tell what's even important anymore. We are also an established company as well. I've been chalking it up to the industry I'm in (since it's new to me). Doing my best to just go with the flow.

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Curious if we’re in the same industry 😅

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40% of the projects I’ve worked on have been cancelled before launch (or launched to a single client who left us within a year).

I keep telling my boss that I don’t agree with the priorities, but she seems to think she knows better than everyone else 🤷‍♂️

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Agreed! Of course she thinks otherwise…

Everywhere I’ve ever worked. I basically started treating roadmaps like “inspiration” because some urgent project prioritized by management would inevitably derail them. But I also refused to keep making them from scratch. Tell me what’s wrong with the prior one, full of stuff customers have actually wanted for 3 years that we haven’t touched. If we’re going to ignore a roadmap, let’s at least ignore one that I already made.

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I’ve experienced this, too. Competing priorities, dropped balls, and incomplete specs.

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Yes. We do a bunch at planning for each half of the year and inevitably it gets derailed by the priorities of a new CTO, VP, GM, etc.

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