How do you prioritize when you’re a newbie into the team?

Get with your manager and ask them to help map out your schedule. It's so hard when you're just getting started, and it's better to double check to make sure nothing slips through the cracks early on.

I am youngest on my team and have set up 1:1 with each person I directly work with to keep them updated on what I’m working on and the status of it. Some are weekly, some bi-weekly, some just once a quarter. That way they are informed of any issues I’m experiencing before they affect things downstream.

I’m new at my org too and I have a really helpful and supportive manager, thankfully. But also… Are there quarterly goals, OKRs, or a North Star you can use for guidance? Are these brand new initiatives or building off previously released features? Have you gotten with the CS team to hear their pain points?

This is very basic but keep To- do list ready and prioritize based on urgent, must have and nice to have . Sometimes prioritization needs to be done within a day twice and sometimes once a day is fine

Jumping off most people’s comments but working with my manager to stay on track and keeping a to-do list helped me as well. There’s usually a lot to start working on when you’re new and it can be very overwhelming at first. Having something to reference regularly and having someone to validate my approach relieved a lot of stress I had when I first started as a PM.

So when I was an APM at my former company, a strategy that worked well for me was to use a personal Trello board that listed all the things I was working on in swim lanes, similar to Kanban boards (e.g. “To Do”, “Doing”, and “Done”). I would prioritize it on a daily basis with myself and then share it with my manager at least once a week so that we’re both on the same page. This way I know I’m not missing anything and I’m confident that I’m working on the right things.

This may be overkill to some but for me learning to be a Product Manager, it was a great exercise to build confidence and grow better instincts in prioritization. Eventually I didn’t need it in my more recent jobs but I still fall back on a handy to-do list in times where I’m feeling bogged down and need to focus on one thing at a time.

Look at what is on your plate and the closest deadline. Additionally, look at the process line of coworkers and assess if they would need something urgent or not. Lastly, get with your manager and go through your action items, so both of you are on the same page.

Ask as many questions as you can if you're ever confused!!

Keep a to-do list arranged based on urgency/deadlines and ask around the team for things you should be aware of like clients you need to pay extra attention to and such.