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by artwr 2799 days ago
I am always reminded of this story around throughput metrics for Software Engineering: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...

Your suggestion is delightful, and in a former company, one of our PMs, at a time when we were overwhelmed with requests, tried to tame the tied by requiring requesters fill out this simple template along the folloing lines (but I am paraphrasing): - What is the impact on you/your team from this feature/bug not being addressed? - What is the priority of this in comparison to other asks you have from the team? - What is the impact to the business?

Even though the team did not like the bureaucratic approach, the number of requests went down dramatically.