How have people managed product feature requests from folks across the organization?

[Jon A]

I am a PM and trying to understand best practices on how folks across the organization can submit feature requests / user stories? Is it best for them to submit directly into the backlog? Should I create a separate Project for feature requests / user stories and then only move into backlog once they are cleaned up + ready to do so? Any insights as to how folks have managed this effectively would be much appreciated. 

[John Funk]

Hey Jon,

There are a lot of factors that can go into. Such as size of team, team dynamics, backlog grooming process, etc. 

The best thing I can tell you is try a couple of different methods and see.