You're running a product team with limited resources. How do you decide which feature requests to prioritize?
When resources are scarce, prioritizing product features becomes a high-stakes game of strategic decision-making. Here's how to ensure you're making the best calls:
- Assess impact versus effort. Tackle features that provide significant user value for the least amount of resources.
- Listen to your customers. Prioritize features based on user feedback and data to align with their needs.
- Consider long-term gains. Weigh the potential for future growth and scalability when deciding which features to build.
What strategies help you decide on feature prioritization in your product team?
You're running a product team with limited resources. How do you decide which feature requests to prioritize?
When resources are scarce, prioritizing product features becomes a high-stakes game of strategic decision-making. Here's how to ensure you're making the best calls:
- Assess impact versus effort. Tackle features that provide significant user value for the least amount of resources.
- Listen to your customers. Prioritize features based on user feedback and data to align with their needs.
- Consider long-term gains. Weigh the potential for future growth and scalability when deciding which features to build.
What strategies help you decide on feature prioritization in your product team?
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More often than not, you will have limited or less resources than you would want. Be it more developers or budget to experiment or anything else, it will be less than what you would ideally want. In such a case, one should focus on below 3 aspects: [1] Ruthless prioritization Spend good amount of time in prioritization. If you are able to prioritize right, half the battle is already won. [2] Play by the strengths When you have limited resources, focus on the right allocation. Play by the strengths of each person in the team. [3] Innovative out-of-the-box solutions As it is said, "Necessity is the mother of invention", likewise, such situations forces you to think hard and innovatively. Come up with unique solutions to your problems.
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Effective resource allocation for high priority requests allows you to get the maximum value out of the limited resources you have at your disposal. It improves team well-being & morale in tough times. To achieve this one must undertake the below measures: 1. Notify stakeholders & set clear expectations on the focus areas. Prioritize based on factors like impact, strategic alignment, effort required, resource availability & strengths 2. Identify automation areas during the development phase like QA automations, effective code repository and documentation. Prioritize automations for long term gains 3. Make sure to monitor resource allocation & make adjustments if required. Refine priorities based on customer feedback and blockers
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To prioritize feature requests with limited resources, I would assess the potential impact on user experience, align the requests with our overall business goals, and consider the effort required for implementation. I'd prioritize features that provide the most value to our users, solve pressing problems, and can be delivered within our resource constraints. Collaboration with stakeholders and feedback from the team would also guide these decisions to ensure we focus on what truly drives growth and satisfaction.
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Go for high/moderate business impact + high/moderate feasibility. A critical thought here is that this approach over a consistent basis would neglect the craft and creativity associated with PM. But here’s the thing - with limited resources, the outcomes often have to obey the above framework- then it is the skill of the product manager to deliver such features in a creative manner.
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The feature that focusses on the unique experience or the main problem solving feature is the one which I should prioritize as it is more important to solve a problem first and if you did that well after that everything comes up like UI/UX and some more simple features that help us in retention and to give the user more reason to used our application.
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