Choosing daily work when running several solo products
Running several small products alone can make daily priorities harder than the actual building work. The product touched most recently can keep getting , even when another task would do more for revenue or growth.
Possible ways to handle this include rotating products on a fixed schedule, work by product, following the clearest revenue impact, or dealing with the most urgent problem each morning. The core problem is finding a calmer system so the loudest issue does not automatically decide the day.
Key points
- Multiple solo products create a daily time-allocation problem.
- The most recently touched product can unfairly keep winning .
- Urgent issues can crowd out work that matters more to the .
- Fixed rotation, , and revenue-based priority are possible systems.
- A simple decision rule can keep the day from being driven by noise.