Staffed on a team right now that is an SM, M, and me. I find that the SM and M spend 90% of their time doing other things and I am left to deliver our project work. On the one hand, I am okay with this because I am capable of doing it. On the other hand, I’m tired of doing all the work myself and having no one to even bounce ideas off of. I don’t mind driving the work, but I don’t want to do ALL of it. Would be great to have more input from my leads, junior staff to help out, or both.

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Same boat for last two engagements, what helped is that I would schedule meetings with them throughout the week for alignment. Some of them were ad-hoc meetings as well.

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This is exactly my life. It's exhausting. To boot their "contribution" is often agreeing unrealistic deadlines across multiple projects without asking or considering who will actually deliver the work

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Email them to bounce ideas off of them anyway? If they don’t respond, follow up with them. I would imagine that they would respond to your follow up email.

Also helpful to direct the email to one of them and cc the other. You get a better response rate (usually)

Can you bounce ideas or courses of action off of your client teams? If done well, it could build rapport and get you a lot of client recognition. I don't know the specifics of your work so my suggestion might not be applicable.

Do you have a stand up with them to make sure you are getting their input?

We have daily stand-ups that are often cancelled, moved, or co-opted. And when I schedule working sessions to work on larger deliverables, the same thing happens. They feel like I’ve got things handled, which is great, but it’s tiring.

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