Hey Product Manager: Are You Fighting for Engineering Resources?

Three product teams enter. One product team leaves triumphant, two stumble away bruised. Do your resource allocation meetings ever feel like a knock-down, drag-out fight? When there are not clear priorities to guide what needs the most investment, it can feel as though you have to grab anything you can — even if it means another team will have less. This is a zero-sum game.

Remember, this is your own company we are talking about — not some external threat.

The culprit for these nasty resource...