I'm having a hard time stepping back from day-to-day interactions with my engineers. I spend about 3 hours a day on meetings or 1:1 calls with my engineers (5), helping them solve problems or understand their tickets.

As PM, I write all the tickets that my team works on, so both user stories and enabler stories, so I feel responsible for helping them work through questions that come up, but it's draining and prevents me from working on big things picture strategy stuff.

I've tried refusing to answer slack messages and other forms of removing myself from day to day, but it translates into missed deadlines and unhappy stakeholders.

Does anyone have any recommendations for books to read on this subject or things to try?

Thanks