Conflicting priorities

Ganesh Kumar Program Manager Bangalore., Karnataka, India

Team,

We are often faced with “conflicting priorities”. How to manage work, when there are conflicting priorities. Everyone has their priorities set and you are expected to deliver at their priorities, whereas you have your own priorities. To state an example: 2 or 3 markets approach stating their requirement is important and it may look seemingly important on the face of it. How to manage such conflicting priorities – what are your views/suggestions to overcome and try to meet if not all, but majority of the priorities in the same gravity, reduce heartburn and still have your performance intact :)

Before posting this question, I did look up if anyone had similar conflicts. Looks like no one had!!

Posted: Sep 10, 2019 7:33 AM

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Ganesh Kumar Program Manager Bangalore., Karnataka, India

Sep 11, 2019 7:35 AM

Replying to Sergio Luis Conte

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Key thing is to understand that are not your priorities, they are the stakeholders priorities. So, help them to prioritize by performing facilitation sessions. Something very important: this type of things belongs to business analysis not project management. I am writting this just in case you need to search about how to do that.

Hi Sergio,
You are right, it is about business analysis and there are just few people.

Posted: Sep 16, 2019 7:14 AM

Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada

Ganesh -

This is the core of product ownership - balancing the needs & wants of multiple stakeholders for a given product. There are many techniques which can help (e.g. scoring models, pruning the product tree, buy a feature) but the key is having a decision maker who is able to facilitate a collaborative discussion with the stakeholders to come up with the best possible mix of features to satisfy the vision for the product.

Kiron

Posted: Sep 16, 2019 8:00 AM

Ganesh Kumar Program Manager Bangalore., Karnataka, India

Thanks Kiron, very valuable to give your gist of the issue, BA community under whom the project is running is aware and are battling conflicting priorities, unable to deploy additional resources knowing well the risk on quality and missing deadlines. The markets are unwilling to hear a ‘no’. stakeholders split between different timezones and different departments – are fueling the issue. Suggesting it as, a learning experience to do whatever is best possible seemed the only way out.

Posted: Sep 18, 2019 3:18 AM

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