5 Steps to Prioritize Work in a Fast-Paced Environment

If you’re a software team lead that needs help prioritizing work for a team in a fast-paced environment, you’ve got problems

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Problems we all have, because priorities will always change, people will always need help.

Maybe you’ve worked in an environment where priorities shift constantly, making it hard to keep up with all of the work that needs doing.

Or perhaps work is falling through the cracks because people are spending too much time on urgent tasks that aren’t necessarily more important than other tasks.

You’ve got deadlines to hit and probably too many balls in the air.

Things can get hectic as a manager in a fast paced environment. Deciding what’s important is a tough question to answer. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

To help you prioritize tasks and make sure everything gets done, use these steps.

Start by making sure everyone on the team knows what’s going on

It takes a lot of work to stay on top of everything happening.

As a team manager, you have to keep up with your co-workers’ progress, the status of ongoing…