I had an idea to solve a big management problem

I have been working as an Engineering Manager for the past couple of years at a large pre-IPO startup. Long-term and short-term planning is a big part of the role and involves a lot of tedious manual labor. The effort I was wasting on these processes got me thinking about how this process could be improved.

I spent some time thinking about how our planning process worked, considering things like effort estimations, cross-team dependencies and prioritization. There was a lot to unpack, but I came up with a few straight-forward ways of improving these workflows via classic automation and best practices.

I started conceptualizing how this would look as a product and started working on a POC.