One real case. From frustration to a way forward.
A team is frustrated because their delivery manager keeps overriding priorities, even during sprint planning. You tell Sager what's happening in your own words. It plays it back and checks it has understood before going any further.
Sager asks what might be driving the behaviour. No clear decision rights? Pressure from escalations? Delivery dates pushing the order around? Pick the one that fits, or describe it in your own words.
Talked through, it becomes clearer. Escalations have become a "must do now" lane that outranks the sprint plan. The product owner is involved but can't say "not this sprint". The team is living with the consequences.
Sager narrows the next move to two practical choices: make trade-offs explicit inside planning, or put a gate on incoming escalations. Then it offers to draft a one-page escalation intake and a "trade-off required" script you can use in your next sprint planning.
Sager works across ~40 delivery scenarios — from stakeholder instability to authority drift, sponsor disengagement to team performance pressure.