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.

HardTechnical

74 practiced

You must deliver a large personalization epic over three quarters. Propose an epic-slicing strategy that yields measurable business value early and reduces risk. For each slice provide the scope, acceptance criteria, expected metric impact, and how you'd validate it technically and with customers.

EasyTechnical

61 practiced

Differentiate milestones and deadlines on a program roadmap. Provide at least three example milestones (with measurable criteria) for launching a new subscription offering and explain how milestones relate to entry and exit criteria, dependencies, and release gates.

EasyTechnical

70 practiced

Estimate team capacity for the next quarter and show a sample calculation: your team has 6 engineers, average velocity 60 story points per two-week sprint, sprint length = 2 weeks, quarter = 6 sprints. Account for non-dev work at 20% of capacity and one engineer on parental leave for 6 weeks. Provide the total effective story points capacity for the quarter and explain assumptions.

MediumTechnical

75 practiced

Describe how you'd incorporate A/B testing and controlled experiments into roadmap items. For a medium-sized feature you plan to launch, explain how you would: craft hypotheses, choose primary and secondary metrics, determine sample size and ramp plan, run experiments safely in production, and decide when to roll out or rollback.

MediumTechnical

73 practiced

You manage an epic that depends on a central infrastructure team which has limited bandwidth and a large backlog. Describe how you would sequence the work across product and infra teams, identify the critical path, propose mitigations (both technical and process), and model those decisions on your roadmap so stakeholders can see the impact.

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