Program Planning and Roadmapping Questions

Focuses on translating business objectives into a program or product roadmap and a pragmatic execution plan. Core topics include defining program themes and epics, sequencing work into milestones with clear entry and exit criteria, creating realistic timelines that account for team capacity and buffers for uncertainty, and prioritizing across competing goals such as new customer acquisition, retention, monetization, technical debt, and competitive responses. Candidates should be able to articulate the strategic rationale for roadmap items including hypotheses and success metrics, involve and align stakeholders, adjust plans as conditions change, and show planning horizons of roughly two to three quarters while remaining grounded in near term delivery details.