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Keep the Team on Highest-Impact Work

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You are the Engineering Manager for a product team shipping a customer-facing platform. The team has a steady stream of feature requests, bug fixes, and internal asks, but capacity is limited and leadership wants faster business impact. You need to keep the team focused on the highest-impact work without creating confusion, churn, or stakeholder backlash.

Question

How do you keep your team focused on the highest-impact work?