How do you all manage teams who tend to spin out of control by over-complicating relatively straightforward client asks?

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Is this in reference to a specific team and/or phase?

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Maybe they are stretched thin. Especially, if it’s straight forward client tasks. Are you meeting weekly with all the PM’s? Usually, at those meetings you come to a solution or at least hear their reasoning.

There's a few reasons a team will spin out of control. Because agencies traditionally prioritize account teams - this function sets the tone for the account; you can have an account team that fosters transparency with their teams and welcomes input and collaboration or one that prefers to dictate action items without regard nor the technical prowess to facilitate the ask - if a team is spinning, one of the more likely culprits is the account team mismanaged client expectations, failed to include key stakeholders to debrief feedback and/or my favorite they left project management out of loop until it's too late to mitigate scope creep. The other two reasons atw fairly straight forward, the team in place is spread too thin or the team in place does not possess the skills needed to accomplish the work.

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