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I think thats true when a lateral team is asking for work, but he also lumps in requests from higher-up. The assumption would always be that this person knows t
by JamesSwift 4y ago
I think thats true when a lateral team is asking for work, but he also lumps in requests from higher-up. The assumption would always be that this person knows the priorities better so is in better position to say if work is urgent. The disconnect with these parties is usually that they forgot you are in the middle of "other thing that is more urgent" or that there will be unwanted downstream impact, and so they can be convinced that actually the new thing is not as urgent.
- s1artibartfast 4y agoThat is a bad assumption. Superiors can make the call on urgency, but don't know the tradeoff involved. They will always ask for more and need to be presented the costs.
- lamontcg 4y agoSuperiors usually don't make any better calls on urgency, and the more superior the more completely out of touch they usually are, and the more they need a conversation like this.
- edmundsauto 4y agoI consider it a failure of the manager if their superiors don't have the tradeoff information for a decision they are making. It's an expectation that managers also manage up