If you’re like most Product Managers, you find yourself constantly struggling to manage incoming priorities, especially when there are problems that directly impact your clients, customers, and ongoing plans. It’s way too easy to wind up getting caught up in the constant firefighting efforts that happen on a day-to-day basis, and extricating yourself from the constant miasma of yelling, screaming, hair-pulling, and general chaos can often seem impossible.
There are some very simple things that you can do, starting immediately, that can help you to build a more rigorous and structured approach to these issues, and that can pull you out of the constant firefighting that you’re facing on a daily basis.