Scope Management and Risk Mitigation Questions
How you manage scope creep, handle unexpected challenges during execution, adjust plans based on new information, and mitigate execution risks. Includes honest timeline communication, contingency planning, and adaptive roadmap management.
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You're planning a major release that depends on a third-party API with known changes expected in two months. Describe your contingency plan and mitigation options (e.g., feature toggles, parallel integration, contractual SLAs). Explain the trade-offs of each approach in terms of time, cost, and residual risk.
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Propose a lightweight ‘must-have/can-wait’ rubric to help engineering and product decide what to cut when schedule pressure hits. Include at least 6 criteria and explain how you would apply weighting or scoring in practice.
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You must integrate risk mitigation tasks into the sprint backlog without reducing feature throughput. Describe three strategies for embedding mitigation work (e.g., tech spikes, capacity allocation, dual-track discovery) and the pros/cons of each.
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Draft a one-page process for handling 'urgent' scope changes that includes who can declare urgency, what qualifies as urgent, approval steps, and how to record the decision so it can be audited later. Keep language actionable for a 50-person product org.
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Design a lightweight risk register template (fields and a short description) you would use for a single product feature. The register should capture identification, likelihood, impact, mitigation, owner, and contingency. Provide the columns and short rules for maintaining it during the feature lifecycle.
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