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Comment by djohnston | Hacker News Reader

At work, I currently have 4-5 different PM's on 4-5 different projects. Each of them has no idea what the others are asking, and I am constantly bombarded with one off tasks via hipchat or in-person requests. The point is not to complain about work, but to agree that management would do well to recognize the importance of process scheduling and queueing, and that a failure to do so is only detrimental to their own objectives.

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I don't have _that_ many PMs, but when I have multiple people asking me to do simultaneous tasks, I email all of them, asking them to prioritize the list for me. I'm polite about it. And it mostly works out. But I never, ever shy away from doing this.

Very good idea - since it both puts the onus on them, and makes them realize the conflicting demands on your time.

>when I have multiple people asking me to do simultaneous tasks, I email all of them, asking them to prioritize the list for me.

exactly, as programmers we should be able to understand and apply basic concurrency management techniques.

Your manager/team lead should be shielding you from such

Why haven't you got a public list of this that you ask them to add to and argue amongst themselves on the priority?

Also, your manager is shit.

Have you considered telling the 4-5 PMs what the others are asking?

>I currently have 4-5 different PM's

That sounds like Agile done right! /s

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