Thread 9: Director Role Creep Priority Chaos

Platform

Reddit

Link

https://www.reddit.com/r/ITManagers/comments/1s26y5a/two_months_in_as_director_and_drowning_need/

Key Excerpt

“playing scrum master AND product manager for everything… directly managing 8 developers… dev team is a mess with technical debt and fires… boss keeps asking why random requests can’t be done in a few days and just says ‘you have 8 people, figure it out.’”

Why This Matches Ryva ICP

Operator-level pain with unclear ownership, priority churn, and no stable execution model. This is direct weekly coordination breakdown in a small technical org.

Underlying Problem

Leadership is pushing unmanaged intake into an already overloaded team without explicit tradeoff ownership or visible execution capacity.

Suggested Public Reply (Copy)

This is not a personal capacity issue, it’s a prioritization system failure. “You have 8 people, figure it out” without explicit tradeoff ownership guarantees chaos. Visibility improves when every new request is forced into a ranked queue with accepted de-prioritizations.

Suggested DM Idea (Copy)

Your post highlights role-creep + invisible tradeoff debt. If helpful, I can share a simple intake/capacity format that forces priority decisions upstream so your team stops absorbing random demand silently.