https://mattsencenbaugh.com/categories/product-management/ Recent content in product-management on Matt Sencenbaugh Hugo -- gohugo.io Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://mattsencenbaugh.com/the-priority-queue-development-process/ Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:00:00 +0000 https://mattsencenbaugh.com/the-priority-queue-development-process/ TLDR - Programmers are bad at giving time estimates so we shouldn’t ask them to. To be more efficient an organization should experiment with a process that simply places 3 items in each developers ‘PQueue’ and let them finish it. PQueue My tech teammate was up from Austin this week and suggested that our dev team try out a process similar to what his old team used at Demand Media. The basic idea is that instead of doing agile or waterfall, Demand Media simply assigned each developer a queue of the highest priority tasks they could be working on at that moment (with a cap of 3).