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Project lead struggling with unsustainable team attrition

🧭 worksocial problemSingle report ●●●●● severity 4/5

A solution architect leading a large-scale transformation project reports that high staff turnover and lack of leadership support are causing project failure, loss of senior technical expertise, and an unsustainable workload as they are forced to cover multiple management roles.

Who's affected: A solution architect and project lead on a large-scale multi-vendor transformation project.

⚠️ Single report. This is one person's account. We mark it so until more voices confirm it.

What people do today

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Ideas a builder, maker or community group could start on:

  1. A project risk assessment and mitigation tool that visualizes attrition impact on milestones for executive reporting.
  2. A structured 'stay interview' framework and retention strategy template for project leads to use with leadership.
  3. A professional coaching service specifically for project leads navigating organizational collapse and burnout.
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Real voices

β€œI've been raising the alarm to leadership that we need to stop this Boulder of attrition that keeps rolling down the hill.”

Source: Stack Exchange (workplace) Β· CC BY-SA 4.0, user-contributed content from Stack Exchange; summarized and modified

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