Too Much, Too Fast, Too Vague: Practical ways to cut overload and improve decision-making in delivery teams
Tracey Holland
Time
15:00 - 15:45
Projects rarely drift because people don’t care. More often, teams are carrying too much, moving too fast and working with far too much vagueness.
This practical session explores what happens when delivery teams become overloaded, urgency starts driving decisions and the real priorities are less clear than people think. Drawing on real-world examples from change and delivery environments, it will help project, PMO and change professionals spot the patterns that create drift, challenge unhelpful work and create clearer ways of working when everything starts to feel urgent.
If you are responsible for delivering outcomes in a messy real-world environment, this session will give you practical tools to cut through noise, protect focus and improve decision-making under pressure.
Your Takeaways
- How to spot the difference between genuine priority and noise
- A practical way to identify the ‘sand’ filling up team capacity
- Better ways to improve clarity, ownership and momentum in delivery teams
- Simple tools for saying no, slowing panic and making better decisions under pressure
About Tracey
Tracey Holland is the founder of Reforge Change and has spent more than 30 years helping teams and organisations navigate messy, complicated change. She specialises in making change more doable by improving clarity, decision-making and the way people work together under pressure.
With a practical, no-jargon approach, Tracey brings together delivery experience, behavioural insight and a healthy intolerance for unnecessary chaos. Her work helps leaders and teams cut through overload, focus on what actually matters and make progress that lasts.