When you have a large scale project that just feels stuck, where nothing’s moving, where everything is a constant battle just to make the smallest progress it can be very frustrating.
But ultimately as an architect you need to get it sorted. It just might mean you’re battling on too many fronts, the solution to this is to focus down to individual issues, as I was once taught
“it’s how you kill a zombie horde, one half brick in the head at a time”
and this works. In fact, it’s exactly the same method as people deal with overwhelming personal debt. You pick the biggest, most painful item and concentrate your full attention on it. break it, beat it, do not get distracted.
Once you’ve beaten that one. Then you move to the second most awkward one and again put your full concentration on it, and work your way through like this till the project as a whole starts to move again, if you’re dealing with real people this form of action builds up momentum, problems that were just made up issues before suddenly melt away because people do not want a projects full attention on them, and issues that were genuine welcome you, as they think you are bringing real help, even if its just a half brick and a grim expression.
Disclaimer: As always these posts are not aimed at anyone client or employer and are just my personal observations over a lifetime of dealing with both management and frontline associates.