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.
Overview
People affected2 accounts across 1 forum
Workarounds found3 items attempted
Community agreement13 total upvotes
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
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- 1Time boxing PR and development work to specific hoursDid this help you?
- 2Maintaining a backlog of 2 to 3 independent tasks for junior developersDid this help you?
- 3Leaving the current job to find a dedicated Technical PM position with proper compensationDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
r/projectmanagement2 people · September 2026
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