How do you balance "must do" work (compliance, maintenance, etc.) with objective/goal oriented work?
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Splunk Director of Product Management • 3y
Before jumping into the "must do" work, it's best to understand the reason for doing the work. Sometimes the "must do" work is warranted. For example, compliance could ...
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Chainguard Senior Director of Product Management • 1y
The best way that I've found to manage this is to fund these out of separate envelopes.Typically I will work with engineering to agree on the base % allocation of resourc...
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MikMak Director of Product | Formerly Discover, IRI • 3y
The balance/percentage should be agreed upon by the EM and the PM and shared with the broader org for visibility. For example, in a team of 5 engineers, one engineer's ti...
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Product Manager | Formerly ClickUp • 3y
The main risk is constantly deprioritizing the Compliance and maintenance work and building a tech debt at such a level that it will take forever to pay it back. There a...
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