I'm tired of just having task after task being thrown our way, with all of them being 'high priority'. When we as a team decide what should get second priority, there always seems to be a problem. What's the trick to make THEM pick what goes back into the backlog?

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“Were still heads down in [high priority item #1], we can’t switch over to this job until the first is in a good place”

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"OK, Ive got 3 high priority projects. Which is the HIGHEST priority?"

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Make them choose for you. “I’m currently prioritizing XYZ for ABC due by 123. I’d love to help with this ask, too. But, I could use some help figuring out which one takes precedence.”

If they’re worth their salt, they’ll talk to the other CD/manager or team PM to figure out what’s really hot and what actually has some flex. And, if it doesn’t have flex, then it’s on them to figure out someone else to do it if your bandwidth is currently at capacity.

Write documentation and send it up the management chain to protect yourself from all these results of bad executive decisions and missing management.

yea you gotta communicate this to them and ask for prioritization or just decide and let them know where they are and if they really need something, they'll adjust resourcing for the task

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