Most PMs are prioritizing the wrong things. Itâs not about building the most features. ððâð ð®ð¯ð¼ðð ð¯ðð¶ð¹ð±ð¶ð»ð´ ððµð² ð¿ð¶ð´ðµð ð¼ð»ð²ð. When everything feels urgent, the real skill is choosing what ð¯ð°ðµ to do. Here are quick, proven techniques to simplify your prioritization process: ð¦ ð¦ðð®ð¿ð ðð¶ððµ ððµð² ð¯ð¶ð´ ð½ð¶ð°ððð¿ð² â Mission: Why does this product exist? â Vision: Where are we headed? â Strategy: What will get us there? â Goals: What matters ð³ðªð¨ð©ðµ ð¯ð°ð¸? â Metrics: What do we measure to stay on track? But the real challenge? Balancing speed, strategy, and stakeholder alignment. My top 5 frameworks to help you navigate a backlog: ð¢ ð¥ððð ð¦ð°ð¼ð¿ð¶ð»ð´ Evaluate projects based on: â³ Reach: How many users will it impact? â³ Impact: Whatâs the effect on each user? â³ Confidence: How sure are we about our estimates? â³ Effort: How much time will it take? RICE score: (Reach à Impact à Confidence) / Effort ð¢ ðªð¦ðð (ðªð²ð¶ð´ðµðð²ð± ð¦ðµð¼ð¿ðð²ðð ðð¼ð¯ ðð¶ð¿ðð) WSJF helps you build whatâs most valuableâfast: â³ Job Size: How big or complex is the work â³ Cost of Delay = User-Business Value + Time Criticality + Risk Reduction / Opportunity Enablement WSJF Score = Cost of Delay ÷ Job Size ð¢ ð ð¼ð¦ðð¼ðª ð ð²ððµð¼ð± This method clarifies priorities and sets expectations: â³ Must have: Essential features. â³ Should have: Important but not critical. â³ Could have: Nice to have. â³ Wonât have: Not for this time. ð¢ ð©ð®ð¹ðð² ðð. ðð¼ðºð½ð¹ð²ð ð¶ðð ð ð®ðð¿ð¶ð Plot your initiatives on a 2x2 grid: â³ High Value, Low Complexity: Quick wins. â³ High Value, High Complexity: Strategic projects. â³ Low Value, Low Complexity: Fill-ins. â³ Low Value, High Complexity: Time sinks. ð¢ ðð®ð»ð¼ ð ð¼ð±ð²ð¹ Classify features based on customer satisfaction: â³ Must-be: Basic expectations. â³ Performance: More is better. â³ Attractive: Delightful surprises. The best product teams donât rely on a single technique. They blend methods based on goals, clarity, and team dynamics. Letâs stop guessing and start building smarter. ð ðªð®ð»ð ð® ð±ð²ðð®ð¶ð¹ð²ð± ð¯ð¿ð²ð®ð¸ð±ð¼ðð» ð¼ð³ ððµð²ðð² ð½ð¿ð¶ð¼ð¿ð¶ðð¶ðð®ðð¶ð¼ð» ðð²ð°ðµð»ð¶ð¾ðð²ð? Product Map dives deeper with clear examples and resources. Here is the link to the detailed guide on Prioritization ð https://lnkd.in/e2tQCiHp â»ï¸ Repost to share the value. ð©Â Which technique works best for your team? Letâs discuss this in comments!
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I've tried 100s of time management techniques. This is by far my favourite: I used to work 80 hrs/week and call it "productive." When really I was: - Attending pointless meetings - Fighting countless small fires - Being involved in every decision Now I work less than 70% the time and get 4x as much done. The Eisenhower Matrix helped me get there. It teaches you to categorise tasks by importance and urgency. Here's how it works: 1. Do It Now (Urgent + Important) Examples: - Finalise pitch deck before investor meeting tomorrow. - Fix website crash during peak customer traffic. - Respond to press interview request before deadline. Best Practices: - Attack these tasks first each morning with full focus. - Set a strict deadline so urgency fuels execution. 2. Schedule It (Important + Not Urgent) Examples: - Plan quarterly strategy session with leadership team. - Map long-term hiring plan for next 18 months. - Build a personal brand content system for LinkedIn. Best Practices: - Protect time blocks in advance. Never leave them floating. - Tie them to measurable outcomes, not vague intentions. 3. Delegate It (Urgent + Not Important) Examples: - Handle inbound customer service queries this week. - Organise travel logistics for upcoming conference. - Update CRM with latest sales call notes. Best Practices: - Build playbooks so your team executes without confusion. - Delegate with deadlines to avoid wasting time. 4. Eliminate It (Not Urgent + Not Important) Examples: - Tweak logo colour palette again for fun. - Attend generic networking events with no ICP fit. - Review endless âbest productivity toolsâ articles. Best Practices: - Audit weekly. Cut anything that doesnât compound long-term. - Replace low-value busywork with rest, thinking, or selling. If you are always reacting to what feels urgent,  You'll never focus on what matters. Attend to the tasks in quadrant 1 efficiently, Then spend 60-70% of your time in quadrant 2.  That's work that actually builds your business. Which quadrant are you spending too much time in right now? Drop your thoughts in the comments. My newsletter, Step By Step, breaks down more frameworks like this. It's designed to help you build smarter without burning out. 200k+ builders use it to develop better systems. Join them here: https://lnkd.in/eUTCQTWb â»ï¸ Repost this to help other founders manage their time. And follow Chris Donnelly for more on building and running businesses.Â
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As Product Managers itâs so easy to loose trust if features on the roadmap are not prioritised correctly. Here are 5 prioritization frameworks and when to actually use them: 1. RICE (Reach, Impact, Confidence, Effort) â Use when: You have multiple ideas/features and want to prioritize based on expected impact. ð Best for: Growth experiments, new features, MVP ideas ð¡Tip: Confidence % is often biased calibrate with data! 2. MoSCoW (Must have, Should have, Could have, Wonât have) â Use when: Youâre working with tight deadlines and multiple stakeholders. ð Best for: Sprint planning, product launches ð¡Tip: Donât let every stakeholder label everything as âMust have.â 3. Kano Model â Use when: You want to balance delight with functionality. ð Best for: Customer-facing products ð¡Tip: A feature that delights today might be expected tomorrow. 4. ICE (Impact, Confidence, Ease) â Use when: You want a quicker version of RICE for fast decision-making. ð Best for: Rapid prototyping, early-stage prioritization ð¡Tip: Use ICE when you donât have a ton of data but still need to move. 5. Value vs. Effort Matrix â Use when: You want to visualize trade-offs with stakeholders. ð Best for: Roadmap discussions, stakeholder alignment ð¡Tip: Plot features on a 2Ã2: * Quick Wins (High value, low effort) * Strategic Bets (High value, high effort) * Time Wasters (Low value, high effort) * Fillers (Low value, low effort) So which one should you pick? Use RICE when youâre in a data-driven company. Use MoSCoW when time is tight and alignment is tough. Use ICE when you need speed > accuracy. Use Kano when delight matters. Use the Value/Effort Matrix when people keep asking, âWhy this first?â ð Save this for your next prioritization war. ð¬ Tried any of these at work? Drop your go-to framework in comments! #productmanager #job #PMjobs #learning #frameworks
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Big picture to daily focus: A smarter way to prioritize. Prioritization can feel overwhelmingâespecially when you're juggling market strategies, portfolios, projects, and daily tasks. But what if there was a simple, clear method to align it all? Hereâs the approach I use: 1ï¸â£ ðð¼ð¼ðº ð¢ðð: Start with the market view. Use tools like the ððð ð ð®ðð¿ð¶ð to evaluate opportunities and prioritize at the strategic level. 2ï¸â£ ðð¼ð¼ðº ðð»: Shift to the project view. The ðð®ð±ð¢ð¤ðµ ðð¹ð¦ð¤ð¶ðµðªð°ð¯ ðð¢ðµð³ðªð¹ bridges strategy to execution by helping you focus on tasks with the highest impact. 3ï¸â£ ðð¼ð°ðð ðð®ð¶ð¹ð: Finally, organize your personal time with the ðð¶ðð²ð»ðµð¼ðð²ð¿ ð ð®ðð¿ð¶ð to ensure you work smart and avoid unnecessary distractions. To make it even easier, Iâve redesigned the matrices to follow a consistent high/low format. This alignment helps you read, understand, and act faster. Prioritization doesnât have to be complicated. By zooming out, then zooming in, you can turn strategy into seamless execution. Note that I've used my ððºð½ð®ð°ð ðð ð²ð°ððð¶ð¼ð» ð ð®ðð¿ð¶ð at Microsoft to prioritize efforts as big as multi-million dollar ventures down to much smaller efforts. By simply checking the impact on a scale of 1 to 10, and ability to execute on a scale of 1 to 10, as a team or individually, all will get revealed. Whatâs your go-to method for prioritizing? Letâs share tips below! #leadership #productivity
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Evaluating LLMs is hard. Evaluating agents is even harder. This is one of the most common challenges I see when teams move from using LLMs in isolation to deploying agents that act over time, use tools, interact with APIs, and coordinate across roles. These systems make a series of decisions, not just a single prediction. As a result, success or failure depends on more than whether the final answer is correct. Despite this, many teams still rely on basic task success metrics or manual reviews. Some build internal evaluation dashboards, but most of these efforts are narrowly scoped and miss the bigger picture. Observability tools exist, but they are not enough on their own. Googleâs ADK telemetry provides traces of tool use and reasoning chains. LangSmith gives structured logging for LangChain-based workflows. Frameworks like CrewAI, AutoGen, and OpenAgents expose role-specific actions and memory updates. These are helpful for debugging, but they do not tell you how well the agent performed across dimensions like coordination, learning, or adaptability. Two recent research directions offer much-needed structure. One proposes breaking down agent evaluation into behavioral components like plan quality, adaptability, and inter-agent coordination. Another argues for longitudinal tracking, focusing on how agents evolve over time, whether they drift or stabilize, and whether they generalize or forget. If you are evaluating agents today, here are the most important criteria to measure: ⢠ð§ð®ðð¸ ððð°ð°ð²ðð: Did the agent complete the task, and was the outcome verifiable? ⢠ð£ð¹ð®ð» ð¾ðð®ð¹ð¶ðð: Was the initial strategy reasonable and efficient? ⢠ðð±ð®ð½ðð®ðð¶ð¼ð»: Did the agent handle tool failures, retry intelligently, or escalate when needed? ⢠ð ð²ðºð¼ð¿ð ððð®ð´ð²: Was memory referenced meaningfully, or ignored? ⢠ðð¼ð¼ð¿ð±ð¶ð»ð®ðð¶ð¼ð» (ð³ð¼ð¿ ðºðð¹ðð¶-ð®ð´ð²ð»ð ððððð²ðºð): Did agents delegate, share information, and avoid redundancy? ⢠ð¦ðð®ð¯ð¶ð¹ð¶ðð ð¼ðð²ð¿ ðð¶ðºð²: Did behavior remain consistent across runs or drift unpredictably? For adaptive agents or those in production, this becomes even more critical. Evaluation systems should be time-aware, tracking changes in behavior, error rates, and success patterns over time. Static accuracy alone will not explain why an agent performs well one day and fails the next. Structured evaluation is not just about dashboards. It is the foundation for improving agent design. Without clear signals, you cannot diagnose whether failure came from the LLM, the plan, the tool, or the orchestration logic. If your agents are planning, adapting, or coordinating across steps or roles, now is the time to move past simple correctness checks and build a robust, multi-dimensional evaluation framework. It is the only way to scale intelligent behavior with confidence.
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Want to tackle the most impactful data projects? Use the RICE scoring model to sort them by priority! RICE stands for Reach, Impact, Confidence, and Effort. Itâs a useful framework to prioritize tasks and projects effectively. 1. ð¥ð²ð®ð°ðµ: Estimate how many people your project will affect. For example, how many teams will make decisions based on my results?    2. ððºð½ð®ð°ð: Estimate the potential benefit. Will this project bring significant improvements or minor enhancements? Rate it on a scale e.g., 1 to 5.    3. ðð¼ð»ð³ð¶ð±ð²ð»ð°ð²: Assess how confident you are in your estimates. High confidence boosts the projectâs score, while low confidence lowers it. Be honest about your uncertainties regarding data quality and model complexity (0.0 to 1.0).    4. ðð³ð³ð¼ð¿ð: Calculate the time and resources required to complete the project. Measure it in person-hours or team-days. Less effort means a higher score. CÍaÍlÍcÍuÍlÍaÍtÍiÍoÍnÍ ð¥ððð ð¦ð°ð¼ð¿ð² = (Reach à Impact à Confidence) / Effort EÍxÍaÍmÍpÍlÍeÍ You will reach 50 sales managers with your model and estimate an impact of 4 out 5 on their work. You're fairly certain about achieving your goal with a rate of 0.8. It will take you about 80 hours of work to build the model. ð¥ððð ð¦ð°ð¼ð¿ð² = (50 à 4 à 0.8) / 80 ð¥ððð ð¦ð°ð¼ð¿ð² =  2 You can compare this score of 2 versus the other project scores and select the one with the highest value. Use the RICE model to sort and prioritize your data projects. It ensures youâre focusing on high-impact tasks that require reasonable effort and have solid confidence behind them. Regularly revisit and adjust your scores as new data or insights become available. This keeps your priorities aligned with changing business goals. By applying the RICE scoring model, youâll increase the efficiency of your project management, ensuring youâre working on what truly matters. How do you currently prioritize your data projects? ---------------- â»ï¸ Share if you find this post useful â Follow for more daily insights on how to grow your career in the data field #dataanalytics #datascience #rice #projectmanagement #prioritization
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ð How to do Prioritization as a Product Manager. Product Managers face a problem of plenty. You have so many things to do, many problems, many solutions, and many suggestions, but are always limited by time, bandwidth, and resources. Now you need to obsessively prioritize and filter ideas before you put them in the roadmap. But how do you prioritize? The simplest yet most powerful framework that most PMs rely on is the Impact v/s Effort Framework. The impact is determined by: - Potential revenue estimate, - Customer value, - Alignment with company goals, - Demand from the market, or - Any other relevant metrics that align with product goals. Impact estimation is mostly the responsibility of the product manager. The effort is determined by: - Development complexity, - Engineering efforts, - The time required & cost, - Operations complexity, etc. Effort estimation is mostly done by the delivery teams like engineers, design, ops, etc. This is a collaborative exercise. The next step is to visualize this through an impact v/s effort matrix. Provided that the estimations are done correctly, the low efforts & high impact items are picked at the earliest, & other things are prioritized in a logical order. ð 3 Tips to take your prioritization game to the next level: 1. Consider tradeoffs at every step: Some high efforts ideas could be of high strategic importance, similarly some low-impact ideas could be critical for customer experience. Understand the situation from all angles. 2. Look out for red flags: All ideas look high impact, or the backlog is completely filled with low effort low impact ideas. This indicates either the PM is not competent at impact estimation or is not considering enough ideas during product discovery before deciding on the best one. 3. Validate high-effort ideas by first converting them into low efforts experiments. For example: Rather than converting your whole website into all Indian languages, try to convert the most popular pages into 3 popular languages, observe the results and then decide to roll back or go all in. ð Other frameworks for prioritization: There will be times when you'll need more detailed frameworks to prioritize, some of the other helpful frameworks are: 1. KANO: Puts customer satisfaction at the center and distinguishes between basic expectations, performance attributes, and delighters. 2. MOSCOW: categorizes requirements into four priority levels: Must have, Should have, Could have, and Won't have. 3. RICE: adds to more dimensions of Reach and Confidence to make Impact v/s Effort more reliable and exhaustive. ⨠Prioritization is a supercritical and useful skill for product managers, during their work, stakeholder management, and also during interviews. Do you think this would be helpful for you? I share helpful insights for product managers almost every day, consider connecting here ðð½ Ankit Shukla to not miss out. #productmanagement #prioritization
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Stop adding more SEO tasks. Start doing the right ones in order. Most businesses are spreading effort across too many small moves: - content without a plan - keywords without intent - tech fixes without priorities - landing pages without clarity - backlinks without credibility And then they wonder why nothing moves. Hereâs the strategy I use (for both service + product businesses): Step 1: Identify your core money-makers Not everything you offer matters equally. Pick your top 3â5 services/products based on: â profit â demand â how easy it is to deliver â what you want more of Step 2: Build a âmoney pathâ on your website For each core offer, make sure you have: â a clear service page (or collection/category page for products) â internal links pointing to it (homepage, menu, related pages) â a strong CTA (what happens next?) If the page is hard to find, itâs hard to rank⦠and hard to convert. Step 3: Upgrade before you create Before you publish more content, upgrade your key pages: â clearer headline (who itâs for + outcome) â answer buying questions (price, process, timeline, fit) â proof (reviews, results, examples) â comparisons (A vs B, âbest forâ¦â) where it makes sense â FAQs (the stuff people ask in DMs) Step 4: Earn trust signals This is the âunsexyâ part people skip: â get a few real mentions/backlinks from real websites â not random directories â not spammy low quality guest posts â just credibility that makes Google (and AI assistants) take you seriously If youâre overwhelmed, hereâs the truth: SEO gets easier when you stop trying to do everything at once. Prioritise your money-makers. Make them undeniable. Then scale. What are your top 3 money-making services/products for 2026?
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ðð®ð ð ð¥ð¢ð§ð ð ðð«ð¨ð£ðððð¬ ðð ðð§ðð? ððð«ðâð¬ ðð¡ðð ð ðððð«ð§ðð.ð One month, I found myself handling 4 projects at the same time. Different deadlines. Different team members. Different expectations. At first, I thought: âI got this!â By Week 2, I was overwhelmed. ð¬ Teams notifications piling up ð§ Emails left unread ð Deadlines creeping closer It was chaos. But hereâs what I learned that helped me not just surviveâbut actually deliver all four projects successfully. ð¹ ð. ð¡ð¼ð ððð²ð¿ð ð§ð®ðð¸ ðð²ðð²ð¿ðð²ð ððµð² ð¦ð®ðºð² ðð»ð²ð¿ð´ð I used to treat all tasks equallyâhuge mistake. Instead, I started prioritizing like a CEO: Impact vs. Urgency â What moves the needle the most? Tasks I can delegate vs. Tasks I MUST own ð¹ ð®. ð¦ðð¼ð½ ð¢ðð²ð¿ð°ð¼ðºðºðð»ð¶ð°ð®ðð¶ð»ð´. ð¦ðð®ð¿ð ð¦ðºð®ð¿ð ðð¼ðºðºðð»ð¶ð°ð®ðð¶ð»ð´ Handling different teams meant tons of calls, updates, and meetings. Solution? I grouped discussions into structured updates instead of responding to every little thing. Weekly syncs â Big picture Asynchronous updates â For non-urgent matters ð¹ ð¯. ð§ð¶ðºð²-ðð¹ð¼ð°ð¸ð¶ð»ð´ ððµð®ð»ð´ð²ð± ððµð² ðð®ðºð² I used to jump between projects all day. It was exhausting. Then, I started: â³ Morning = Deep work on Project A â³ Afternoon = Meetings + Project B â³ Evening = Reviewing & planning for tomorrow This stopped my brain from context-switching every 10 minutes. ð¹ ð°. ð¬ð¼ðð¿ ðð®ð¹ð²ð»ð±ð®ð¿ ð¦ðµð¼ðð¹ð± ð¦ð°ð®ð¿ð² ð¬ð¼ð ð® ðð¶ððð¹ð² (ððð ð¡ð¼ð ð§ð¼ð¼ ð ðð°ðµ) I learned the power of scheduling everything. Even my âthinking time.â Because if you donât control your calendar, your calendar will control you. ð Lesson? Multitasking isnât the flex. Managing your time is. You canât give 100% to everythingâbut you can be 100% present in what youâre doing right now. Ever been in a situation like this? How do YOU manage multiple projects without losing your mind? Drop your best tips below! ð #TimeManagement #Productivity #CareerGrowth
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Stop sending endless SEO audits. They're not being read. Businesses don't care about lengthy, 30-page technical reports. â³ They care about rankings â³ They care about traffic â³ They care about revenue â³ They care about leads And what ends up happening? A massive document filled with jargon is just gathering dust. Instead, focus on the real issues. âï¸ Identify what's critical âï¸ Highlight what can wait âï¸ Suggest quick wins Turn your analysis into actionable steps. Make clarity your goal, not complexity. Show your clients you are not merely auditing their site, you're proactively solving their problems. Remember this: Don't go overboard fixing everything for free. There is a fine line between being helpful and overextending yourself. I once took a 50-page SEO audit and condensed it into a single page of clear, actionable insights. The outcome? The client actually took action. They started implementing the changes right away. Now, they send me ongoing SEO campaigns because they see my commitment to impact over busy work. In SEO, delivering real value always triumphs over delivering fluff. Are you making the same mistake in your audits?