5 Ways to Prioritize Your Engineers’ Time

Muts Inayama, VP of product and engineering at Imgur, shares insights on effectively managing engineering teams to maintain product development progress and enhance user experience. He emphasizes the importance of aligning product roadmaps with leadership to avoid reactive problem-solving and instead focus on strategic priorities, as exemplified by Imgur's initiative to improve user happiness. Inayama suggests leveraging immovable deadlines, such as significant calendar events, to keep teams on schedule and stresses the value of enabling focused work through flexible schedules and remote work policies. He also highlights the necessity of mindful team expansion to prevent burnout and advises leading by example in time management to balance urgent tasks with long-term strategic initiatives.