You're fighting conflicting priorities. Your priorities, as assigned by your boss, are different from the priorities of managers who are trying to reduce their backlogs. At some point above the levels of these managers there has been a failure of leadership. Until the priorities of the various managers have been aligned, your frustration will continue and there is an excellent chance that the ultimate failure of the project will be pinned on you.
You need to talk to someone--your own boss for starters--and let her know that you're not getting the cooperation you need, and without it you won't be able to get your work done on schedule, if at all.
You need to talk to someone--your own boss for starters--and let her know that you're not getting the cooperation you need, and without it you won't be able to get your work done on schedule, if at all.
Thus, we introduce the concepts of "process," "system," and "continual improvement." All persons are kept in the loop and we try to create a plan for a system of processes (with "plateaus" along the way where progress can be evaluated to determine whether the plan is working or needs to be tweaked.)
My style of consulting is to create [recreate?] Deming's System of Profound Knowledge (SoPK) to encourage everyone in the organization to be on a constant learning curve and to deploy that knowledge to improve the organization and, by extension, improve themselves.
For either the internal or external "change maker," it is important to remember that the question foremost in the mind of EVERY member of the organization is,
"What's in it for me?"
My style of consulting is to create [recreate?] Deming's System of Profound Knowledge (SoPK) to encourage everyone in the organization to be on a constant learning curve and to deploy that knowledge to improve the organization and, by extension, improve themselves.
For either the internal or external "change maker," it is important to remember that the question foremost in the mind of EVERY member of the organization is,
"What's in it for me?"