My responsibilities include development, maintenance, communication about new requirements and some consulting at the same time. The terms for the development tasks are the biggest issue for me. I tend to commit to the nearest possible term as the deadline for my development tasks, but then the maintenance, consulting and requirements tasks intervene and sometimes I even take on some development tasks from more important clients and so, I am missing my deadlines constantly. It is quite a chaos sometimes. I have no coworkers to share our projects but I feel that the tasks are not so many for more staffing. Well - if I were in more certain environment I could afford to have longer queues, stronger contracts and more accurate requirements, but the environment is too dynamic for it. Sometimes I have impressions that the chaos is the only solution. Is that really possible? Or is it possible to introduce more organization into all this?

It should be added that I have to act as some kind of manager as well. I report to board member who supervises the financial results and who certainly doesn't dive into planning.

I'm the sole developer and my responsibilities include development, maintenance, communication about new requirements and some consulting. I should add that I report to board member who supervises the financial results, and who don't get involved in the planning.

Estimating development tasks is the biggest issue for me as I tend to commit to the nearest possible deadline, but then get sidetracked by maintenance, consulting or higher priority tasks. I miss deadlines constantly. 

I feel overwhelmed. In a different environment I could afford to have longer queues, stronger lines of communication, and more accurate requirements, but the environment is too dynamic for it.

How can I go about introducing more organization into all this?

My responsibilities include development, maintenance, communication about new requirements and some consulting at the same time. The terms for the development tasks are the biggest issue for me. I tend to commit to the nearest possible term as the deadline for my development tasks, but then the maintenance, consulting and requirements tasks intervene and sometimes I even take on some development tasks from more important clients and so, I am missing my deadlines constantly. It is quite a chaos sometimes. I have no coworkers to share our projects but I feel that the tasks are not so many for more staffing. Well - if I were in more certain environment I could afford to have longer queues, stronger contracts and more accurate requirements, but the environment is too dynamic for it. Sometimes I have impressions that the chaos is the only solution. Is that really possible? Or is it possible to introduce more organization into all this?

My responsibilities include development, maintenance, communication about new requirements and some consulting at the same time. The terms for the development tasks are the biggest issue for me. I tend to commit to the nearest possible term as the deadline for my development tasks, but then the maintenance, consulting and requirements tasks intervene and sometimes I even take on some development tasks from more important clients and so, I am missing my deadlines constantly. It is quite a chaos sometimes. I have no coworkers to share our projects but I feel that the tasks are not so many for more staffing. Well - if I were in more certain environment I could afford to have longer queues, stronger contracts and more accurate requirements, but the environment is too dynamic for it. Sometimes I have impressions that the chaos is the only solution. Is that really possible? Or is it possible to introduce more organization into all this?

It should be added that I have to act as some kind of manager as well. I report to board member who supervises the financial results and who certainly doesn't dive into planning.