Cross Team Coordination and Dependencies Questions

Covers strategies and practices for planning, executing, and governing work that spans multiple teams and external stakeholders. Key skills include dependency mapping and critical path analysis to determine what work blocks other work and what can be parallelized; release planning and sequencing across teams; integration testing and deployment coordination; and risk identification and mitigation for teams that are on the critical path. Candidates should be able to describe communication and governance rituals such as cross team standups, scrum of scrums, program increment planning, weekly dependency reviews, and escalation protocols. Practical tooling and artifacts include dependency trackers, shared issue boards, visibility dashboards, RACI matrices or clear owner commitments, and cross team milestone plans. At larger scale candidates should show judgement about scaling frameworks such as the scaled agile framework and Large Scale Scrum and when to adopt them versus lightweight coordination. Interviewers will probe trade off conversations and stakeholder facilitation, how to resolve conflicting release priorities, how to remove cross team blockers, and how to measure and improve cross team flow and delivery predictability.