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You are the Engineering Manager for a product team that owns a critical customer-facing platform. Mid-quarter, the team has committed to several roadmap items, a reliability fix, and an urgent customer escalation, and it is now clear the current load exceeds capacity. Some stakeholders are pushing for all commitments to stay in place, while the team is signaling burnout and slipping dates.
How do you handle a situation where your team is overcommitted?
