Try “managing up” with a simple text document during meetings.
I’m the main contributor on a project with a light management layer. The autonomy’ s nice. But it’s given a lot of space for stakeholders to spend check-ins talking about their long term wish list (which is fun for them) while avoiding the prioritization I need them to do.
Recently, I started bringing a text document into check-ins on my understanding on what the priorities, editing it as the meeting goes, and assigning items as (In progress), (todo), or (nice-to-have). It’s Kanban in spirit but without the overhead of actually running Trello / Jira/ Notion.
While I don’t think Trello / Jira/ Notion have significant overhead, +1 for this tip because I think it illustrated something we often forget with productivity/ project management/organising : the best system is one that you can feasible use.
Try “managing up” with a simple text document during meetings.
I’m the main contributor on a project with a light management layer. The autonomy’ s nice. But it’s given a lot of space for stakeholders to spend check-ins talking about their long term wish list (which is fun for them) while avoiding the prioritization I need them to do.
Recently, I started bringing a text document into check-ins on my understanding on what the priorities, editing it as the meeting goes, and assigning items as (In progress), (todo), or (nice-to-have). It’s Kanban in spirit but without the overhead of actually running Trello / Jira/ Notion.
While I don’t think Trello / Jira/ Notion have significant overhead, +1 for this tip because I think it illustrated something we often forget with productivity/ project management/organising : the best system is one that you can feasible use.