I work for a start-up and as with any job in a start-up you end up taking a lot more responsibility than your title demands.
When I finished my MBA, I went to ask for a product management position. They said we are short of developers. So I ended up taking on Product Management as well as development role.
Now as I am performing product management responsibilities, I realized that its a not as glamorous a job as I thought.
There are multiple new products you are working on. At the same time you need to make sure you are not building your stepping stone for new customers on the grave of your existing customer. Bug fixes need to take priority as well.
There there are inputs from development team that we need to upgrade the platform and need new tools as technology advances.
But there are only so many resources available.
I devised a means to assign all Development team requests lower weight, all bug fixes highest weight and new product development moderate weight. However, this made the development team not so happy as well as the upper management not so happy. The professional services guys were happy though.
How can you make everyone happy? Is it even possible?
Should I use some other mechanism to intersperse the weights so that some new development and some development team requests can be accommodated with higher weights & priorities?
When I finished my MBA, I went to ask for a product management position. They said we are short of developers. So I ended up taking on Product Management as well as development role.
Now as I am performing product management responsibilities, I realized that its a not as glamorous a job as I thought.
There are multiple new products you are working on. At the same time you need to make sure you are not building your stepping stone for new customers on the grave of your existing customer. Bug fixes need to take priority as well.
There there are inputs from development team that we need to upgrade the platform and need new tools as technology advances.
But there are only so many resources available.
I devised a means to assign all Development team requests lower weight, all bug fixes highest weight and new product development moderate weight. However, this made the development team not so happy as well as the upper management not so happy. The professional services guys were happy though.
How can you make everyone happy? Is it even possible?
Should I use some other mechanism to intersperse the weights so that some new development and some development team requests can be accommodated with higher weights & priorities?