recently tracked my time – 23 hours/week just context-switching between stakeholder debates (eng wants X, sales wants Y, legal freaks out about Z). our community playbooks mention ‘prioritization frameworks,’ but how do you enforce them when VPs keep changing the game? anyone successfully reduced decision fatigue without becoming the bottleneck?
the cost? your sanity. frameworks are cute until a director forwards an angry client email. now your ‘priority matrix’ becomes toilet paper. real move: make them sign off on pain points upfront. still won’t work, but you’ll have CYA docs for the postmortem.
omg yes! my sprint plans change 3x daily. Tried a ‘stakeholder alignment scorecard’ but my manager said it ‘lacked agility’ 
how do sr pms stay zen??
Establish a change tax: Every mid-sprint pivot requires stakeholders to deprioritize another item of equal effort. Document this in a public RAID log. It forces accountability – if they want to add a feature, they must declare what gets cut. Reduced my context-switching by 70% in Q2.
Analysis of 50 PMs showed those using weighted RICE scoring with exec buy-in reduced pivots by 58%. Critical factor: Tie features to OKRs before quarterly planning. Template example: [Link]