It's painful for me for a few reasons: - Convincing and aligning with multiple people (my boss, HR, finance) that we need to hire X more people to hit whatever

It's painful for me for a few reasons: - Convincing and aligning with multiple people (my boss, HR, finance) that we need to hire X more people to hit whatever business goal or do some project. This results in a bunch of painful meetings and there's always one person that jumps in towards the end and re-questions if we need more people. - Estimating the optimal number of people I actually need to deliver Y. I often underestimate which has rippling effects on putting more strain on the existing team and us always feeling behind. - Working with too many spreadsheets! Needing to create multiple scenarios, data discrepancies which come from collaborators making their tweaks, etc... Wasted time reconciling what the latest or final proposal is.