Real story. Every two weeks I had a board/directors meeting.
The night before or worse, the morning of I'd be opening Jira, Notion, Slack, and three different spreadsheets trying to piece together what's actually happening across every team.
Then I'd message 4 5 PMs: "Hey, what's the status on X?" Half of them would reply after the meeting started.
I'd spend 2 3 hours building a slide deck that was already outdated by the time I presented it. And the directors would ask questions I couldn't answer live because the data was from yesterday.