Focus should be your number one priority

When founders come to me frustrated by the slow pace of development, the first thing I look at is the number of tasks they have in progress. Creating focus for your development team is the first thing you should do if you feel the team is not delivering.

Set a single, clear priority. One goal. One meaningful change. Then step back and let them execute.

Assigning three priorities makes you feel productive, after all, you've made progress on all three items. However, what happens is that your team's attention shifts from X to Y to Z without completing any of them. Context switching kills momentum, and unfinished work stacks up fast.

The difference between a team shipping consistently and one constantly behind is focus. A team working on one feature at a time delivers real progress. A team juggling five half-done features delivers chaos.

“When everything is a priority, nothing is” may be a cliché, but it’s repeated for a reason.