10 Memes About Setting Priorities That Hit a Bit Too Hard

Prioritizing is both an art and a science. We usually blabber a lot about the science part of it. Time to let art speak, too. 

Here are 10 priority memes every Product Manager will relate to (which is sad in some cases, but oh well):

“Let’s do what they did”

AKA Product Manager’s Biggest Nightmare. We all know how reactive feature planning ends up. Too bad the stakeholders don’t.

Customer is always right… right?

We’re not telling you to deprioritize customer feedback.

Magic Conch is, though.

It got lost in the backlog 🤷

Okay, but let’s be real for a sec. Working alongside the sales team on prioritizing features can fill in some knowledge gaps you have about the product. Add the KANO model to it to fire up (hehe) the product growth.

When time blocking blocks your will to live

Managing your time and priorities as a PM isn’t a soft skill. It’s a life skill. We’ve cooked up some tips to help you do it. Spoiler alert: some even help prevent your calendar from looking like a busy airport schedule.

You’ll deal with it never later

Ahh, the end of the backlog. The blissful space to store all random ideas other teams have. In case you need to clean up your backlog before putting another “cool” idea there, we’ve got a tutorial for you.

“Let’s do what they did” vol. 2

“Let’s throw all bad ideas out the window” went a bit too far in this meme. We don’t recommend following such practices. However, we do recommend implementing a strong workflow for addressing customer feedback in product development.

Just go with the flow

Psst… You don’t need to ask. You can calculate it.

Customers? Who needs them?

The meme gods have spoken – you need a strong tool to organize your product management. And you need it fast.

The audacity…

The self-confidence level of the management with no knowledge about your product:

The limit does not exist.

![meme-9.png](/api/files/687fd641-b342-4317-964e-5fe1310f15ea#align=%3Aalignment%2Fblock-center&width=1184&height=1176 ""I know what our users want, and they will love this feature, trust me"")

“That was so fetch.”

Priorities done right 💅