Resource Planning and Prioritization Questions

Covers managing limited resources and competing priorities across teams and projects. Topics include capacity planning, resource leveling, allocation of shared resources, handling resource constraints, negotiating for required capabilities with functional leaders, and resolving resource conflicts. Candidates should be able to explain prioritization techniques such as value versus effort trade offs and prioritization scorecards including reach impact confidence effort, how to sequence work across multiple projects, and how to maintain team morale and productivity when resources are tight. Also includes communication strategies for explaining prioritization decisions to stakeholders, working with resource managers, and balancing short term delivery pressures with longer term roadmap goals.

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Explain the RICE (Reach, Impact, Confidence, Effort) prioritization method: define each component, typical scales or units used, and compute the RICE score for a hypothetical feature with Reach=10,000 users/month, Impact=1.5 (0.0-3.0 scale), Confidence=80%, and Effort=3 person-months. Show the calculation and interpretation.

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Explain a repeatable process for using product usage data, support tickets, and financial metrics to reprioritize a backlog. Which metrics would you prioritize (e.g., DAU, conversion, support volume), how would you weight them, and how would you operationalize continuous re-ranking?

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A release date is fixed in 10 weeks, but team capacities vary across sprints and several features are mid-development. Describe a resource-leveling plan across upcoming sprints to meet the release without causing excessive overtime. Include re-sequencing options, quick mitigations, and how you'd communicate trade-offs to stakeholders.

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As the company grows from 50 to 500 employees over 24 months, outline a plan to scale resource planning and prioritization processes. Cover organizational changes (e.g., PMO roles), tooling, governance adjustments, training plans, and cultural shifts needed to keep decisions fast and data-driven.

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Describe how you would keep team morale and productivity high when resources are constrained for multiple sprints. Include communication rituals, workload adjustments, recognition practices, and at least two ways to measure morale and burnout risk.

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