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You’re a manager, not a dictator. Manage that shit. If it’s a low priority for you but not for someone else, you are prioritizing wrong. Don’t complain because

• maccard 3y ago
  There's a wide berth between being a manager who prioritises work and a dictator that assigns out stack ranked tickets with no end in sight. My job is to make sure the teams priorities are straight, and I can't do that if you or someone else are subterfuging my efforts to do so. Unless otherwise demonstrated, I trust that you (my team member in this case) are a smart, well intentioned person, and I ask that you assume the same of me. Going behind my back because you don't like what I'm asking you to do is "otherwise demonstrated".
  • withinboredom 3y ago
    A team member and manager don’t operate in a vacuum. It’s your job to communicate priorities and ensure the team buys in to the priorities. If they don’t and you didn’t get that buy in, then you can’t blame them for having their own priorities. You can say “these are the priorities” all day long, but so can anyone. The team, as a team, should agree on the priorities. Your job is to communicate the business priorities, the teams job is to turn them into technical priorities which may or may not match the business’s exactly. If you’re not getting the last part and communicating it back upstream, you’re not doing your job.