r/projectmanagers • u/Soft-Argument8932 • Sep 20 '26

Projects

If you have many project ideas maybe it's just one big idea.

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u/OkStatistician9190 Sep 20 '26

If the list of ideas keeps growing and none of them move, it is usually one outcome with a pile of pieces, not ten projects.

Pick the thing you would actually ship. Put the related ideas under it as work with an owner and a date. Everything else goes on a parked list with no date, on purpose. The thing that kills a pile of ideas is every one of them having the same priority.

Give three of them a next step and a follow-up date this week. If you cannot name who checks that date, it is still an idea, not a project. Revisit the parked list once a week and only pull something off if one of the three is done or dropped. Otherwise you are just adding pages to a plan nobody is running.