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 yo

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.