Risk Assumptions Issues and Dependency Management Questions

Comprehensive program level practice for identifying visualizing tracking prioritizing and mitigating risks assumptions issues and inter team or system dependencies across projects and programs. Candidates should be able to map and visualize dependencies determine the critical path and create and maintain combined logs and artifacts for risks assumptions issues and dependencies. Interviewers assess the ability to perform probability and impact assessment prioritize items based on severity and likelihood assign clear owners and define mitigation and contingency plans. The topic includes validating and revising assumptions made during planning tracking active issues and blockers through to resolution applying escalation protocols for unresolved items and using triggers thresholds and reporting to drive decisions and escalation. Candidates should demonstrate sequencing and sequencing of work to avoid cascading delays designing fallbacks or mock interfaces negotiating with dependent teams to unblock work and strategies for preventing cascading failures in multi team programs. The area also covers tooling and visualization techniques dashboarding communication and stakeholder reporting practices used to keep programs aligned and responsive to changing risks and dependencies.