How to handle project management and coding at the same time
Splitting your day between project oversight and coding tickets makes it impossible to complete either task without losing your mind. This constant context switching stops you from getting uninterrupted focus time for your own development work.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Time boxing PR and development work to specific hours
- 2Maintaining a backlog of 2 to 3 independent tasks for junior developers
- 3Leaving the current job to find a dedicated Technical PM position with proper compensation
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
Where this came up
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