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Prioritize Competing Team Projects

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Scenario

You are the Engineering Manager for a shared platform team supporting several product and infrastructure initiatives. In the same planning cycle, your team has requests for a customer-facing feature, a reliability fix tied to recent incidents, and an internal tooling upgrade that another team says will unblock future work. You know you cannot do all three at once, and each stakeholder believes their request is the most urgent.

Question

How do you decide which projects to prioritize for your team?