People:removing roadblocks to productivity/project changing priorities

Focus: Changing/Growing Priorities & How to Communicate Them

Project manager: TBD

These are things we expect to accomplish in 2014.

These are things we expect will take time, influence, and repetition to shift.

The Most Important Thing seems to change every quarter, resulting in churn, fire-drills, frustration with incomplete projects, and burnout. 94 votes
Setting goals that are then thrown away due to new priorities. 47 votes
Organizational difficulty with saying no, limiting scope, excluding options, focusing. 32 votes
Uncertainty about which projects or activities will make the best impact. 24 votes
Spending more time in reactive mode than in any kind of creative/proactive mode. 22 votes
Not enough focus time, not enough down time. Makes mind blurry. 18 votes
Visibility into priority order for the work we are doing as a whole. 14 votes
Fear of project cancellation/changes has created a culture of excessive protection of each owns area of responsibility. 10 votes
Lack of goals setting and/or visibility into goals for people outside (upper) management. 9 votes
So many things in flux all the time that it is hard to feel like you really know how everything works. 8 votes
Too many fire drills, especially in the week before a Firefox tree uplift. 7 votes
Doing more and supporting product scaling efforts with no additional headcount and less expense budget. 5 votes
Lack of alignment, consistency and prioritization at the leadership level. 1 vote.