Juggling different tracks as a solo-founder: your tools/frameworks.
Hello!
Intro on the problem:
Working on the product as a solo-founder, I recognized that a company success is based on multiple things done at least fine.
There is a building, there is a marketing, there is a legal and finance; they also divided into smaller groups. One can't be really "bad" at single of them because it would question the survival of the whole venture. If a product is poor, no marketing would help, and vice versa. You get the gist. That is important to take care of various things ~simultaneously.
The question: what tools or mental frameworks do you use to manage multiple tracks to keep them relevant?
P.S. If you don't share this thinking -- introduce your approach, would be great to know.
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Know what you're feeling. It's hard but not impossible. For me set KPIs (MKT stuff) and from them trigger OKRs (could be MKT or Product stuff). This framework gives you an order that allows you to prioritize what to do next.
Thank you! Would you mind clarify what's MKT? Hasn't managed to find relevant transcript.
MKT -> Marketing -> All you do to acquire new customers.
Oh, thanks, thought it was an abbreviation.
I'm still working on figuring this out, too. Looking forward to seeing what people share.
For me, right now I have separate projects for product, marketing, and admin. I use Asana, but I think the key thing is that each group of tasks is in its own space, rather than all be under one project. The separation makes it a little easier to mentally switch from one to the other.
Mental switching is important. Is it rather about visualization or particular time dedication rules for you?
I try thinking of it as of "streams". There are different aspects one should put their attention into. I perform impactful contributions to tracks regularly switching between them. So, total activities in every stream over some control period (week or month) should be at least comparable. Or there is a chance to leave something wither behind.
I think it's the visual aspect for me. It's like having different physical areas for things, like a work out space and a crafting space. But digitally.
The measuring contributions to different streams makes sense to me! Do you use a particular tool to track them? It reminds me of how some time tracking tools will let you categorize or tag your entries.
Have you thought of VR? Seems tangible since you can have literally different environments. But arranging physical space feels more natural probably.
No particular tool, currently I'm using Notion with kanban board view. But things start to get messy because of mixing together streams, tasks and knowledge storage (keeping future-useful notes on task cards is not convenient).
I have some ideas of project management tool for multiple streams. Haven't decided yet if I want to build it or just need to find smth to apply in the main work)
This is what I do.
Thank you, sounds good. Is it possible to calculate ROI for your daily activities?
GPX is powered by Trello. That's been the main workflow management tool since day one. It is 100% worth the time and effort to manage a development roadmap properly. There are just too many tasks to try to keep them all in your head and be effective at prioritization.
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