Problem Solving Leadership Questions
Leading the identification, analysis, and resolution of project issues and blockers at an organizational or cross functional level. Emphasis on diagnostic techniques to find root causes, setting clear escalation criteria, engaging and aligning stakeholders, facilitating collaborative decision making, implementing solutions, measuring effectiveness, and documenting postmortems and lessons learned. Candidates should demonstrate how they prioritize issues, communicate trade offs, drive consensus, and institutionalize improvements to prevent recurrence.
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Your BI organization must reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) for data incidents by 50% within six months. Propose a measurable program with initiatives (people, process, tooling), milestones, KPIs to track progress, and an explanation of resource trade-offs you expect to make.
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Design an automated regression detection system that monitors KPIs for statistically significant drift and opens incidents when confidence exceeds thresholds. Describe the architecture, baseline selection, statistical tests or models (in Python or pseudocode), seasonality handling, alert routing, and human-in-the-loop verification to reduce false positives.
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Propose clear, measurable escalation criteria for BI incidents that determine when to escalate to senior BI leadership, cross-functional operations, or executive incident response. Provide at least four concrete rules with thresholds and examples (e.g., 'Executive dashboards down for 15+ minutes affecting 80% of users' or 'Data integrity issue impacting regulatory report within 48 hours').
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What is a runbook for BI incidents and what minimum sections should it contain? Provide a concise example outline for a runbook that handles a broken hourly ETL load for transactions, including immediate checks, quick remediation, escalation contacts, and verification steps.
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Provide a clear, quantifiable definition of what constitutes a 'major-severity' BI incident in an enterprise setting. Include thresholds or rules-of-thumb (e.g., percentage of users impacted, estimated revenue at risk, regulatory deadlines missed) and give two BI-specific examples that meet your definition.
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